Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kamakovsky is an engineer in the local Famus motor factory. (The name "Famus" was coined from the English word "famous," Lorenz learned.) The engineer's position is one of the top five in the strategic industry. His full title is Ing. Kamakovsky Evon--the Ing for engineer, and Evon, his given name, is written last...
...worth nothing that local administrators see a trend towards academic disorientation at Andover, a school which resembles Exeter in everything but intensity. Before the process proceeds any further, however, it is worth nothing that education is not Exeter's only product. There are few statistics, but they are revealing. Exeter graduates leave Harvard in larger numbers than any other group. They see psychiatrists in unusual numbers. Despite their preparation, they do worse than the average freshmen, placing only thirty percent of their group on the Dean's List, compared to a class average of forty percent...
Plans now being carried out in the local schools include experiments in the organization of teaching groups, and in teacher advancement and merit. A team of teaching personnel consists of a leader, one or more career teachers, subject specialists, and a number of relatively inexperienced students from the Graduate School of Education...
...Local reaction to the onslaught has been mixed. A "try me" attitude is predominant among Harvardians contacted so far, but Radcliffe is reported to be forming an anti-McSwine Protective Association...
Ribbon-Happy Pols. The Arab fanatics are the terroristic fellaghas who have converted every isolated colonial's farmhouse, every road, every French-employed work gang into a guerrilla front line. A bout of fellagha Mau-Mauism periodically drives the local European population into a frenzy. Whole villages go on "gook-hunts." Says Servan-Schreiber: "The police and the army are helpless ... so they let the wave pass, hoping that the Arabs are not fools enough to stay out of doors. In a small town, by the time the fun is over, there will be two or three of them...