Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...claim that in the field of technology as well as elsewhere it can and has maintained its leadership." West Germany's Welt am Sonntag observed that "space no longer belongs to the Soviet Union alone. America has caught up with the Soviet Sputnik lead." It added, with pardonable local pride, that the achievement was "a personal triumph for Wernher von Braun and his German colleagues...
...conscious merchants, Editor Hames also swung the paper behind such long-needed improvements as sewer and school construction. For three straight years after Editor Hames took over in 1951, the Republican-Times walked off with the 16-state Inland Daily Press Association's award for coverage of local government...
...late Leslie Small, son of Illinois' longtime scandal-tainted Republican Governor (1921-29) Lennington Small, and his sons, Len and Burrell, who also publish the nearby Kankakee Journal (circ. 24,960). Since the new publishers frowned on controversial stories and insisted that all editorials on local topics be cleared with the business office, Herb Hames buttoned his typewriter on local issues. But last November, after radio station WCMY's Newscaster Ron Wilson reported that trustees of Ottawa's mismanaged municipal hospital had fired a newly hired $12,000-a-year administrator with $8,000 severance pay, Newsman...
...sprouting cable everywhere. Fifteen Cuban cops guarded the equipment through the night. Guest Star Mamie Van Doren and Singer Steve Lawrence toiled at synchronizing their lips with songs they had recorded in Manhattan to avoid technical hitches on the Cuban location. Producer Bill Harbach and his staff kept auditioning local talent, came up with bongo beaters, a singing quartet and a dancer named Tybee Afra who hails from the New York borsch belt. At the poolside near Gambler Meyer Lansky's cabana, in the lobby and the casino. Allen & Co. and Guests Lou Costello and Edgar Bergen rehearsed...
Summer of the 17th Doll (by Ray Lawler) reached Broadway, after something of a triumph in London, from its native Australia. As Broadway's first newsworthy Australian play in history, it has its piquant side-plenty of local color, a working-class lingo, accents faithfully rendered by an all-Australian cast. As altogether honest work, it treats understandingly of believable people and of an odd patterning of human lives. But neither a fresh background nor a sound theme can give the play sufficient dramatic pressure or verbal leverage; if there are no false notes to the writing, there...