Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seven seminars, run for local women on a non-credit basis, have aimed for diversified membership in choosing their students. But the number of women, aged 19 to 90, who have applied for this year's seminars has far exceeded class limits...
...travel through the desert to give unity to the human drama which is at the center. Director John Huston creates a marvelously realistic atmosphere. His Mexican lore is superb, every minor detail of dress and speech and technique rings true without the costumed grandiosity that Hollywood usually purveys as local color. He does not give us pale demigods or villains with waxed black mustaches; the three men he presents us with are for the most part fully believable in a believable if distant situation. One of the three, tough guy Bogart, illustrates the motif of the film, that "gold...
...varsity football team provided local observers with what may well prove the biggest surprise of the year when it held a heavily favored Princeton eleven to a hard fought 28-20 victory on Saturday...
...hymning San Francisco's charms in suitably breezy prose, Sacramento-born Herb Caen (rhymes with reign) has long enjoyed the title "Mr. San Francisco," and one of the most faithful followings of any local columnist in the U.S. (TIME, July 1). On his three-block walk in 1950, Caen took with him 10,000 to 15,000 readers. The upward-struggling Chronicle (circ. 190,045), which has run six columnists in Caen's space without filling the gap, hopes that Herb's homecoming will draw an extra 30,000 circulation and regain some of the advertising that...
...airplanes and buses. In addition to competing with "subsidized" forms of transportation, said Symes and Perlman, their roads have suffered from "long delayed and inadequate rate increases, refusal to permit abandoning of unprofitable and unpatronized trains and facilities, inadequate payment for carrying mail, discriminatory excise taxes, excessive state and local taxes, unfair assessments for highway crossings, and other artificial burdens...