Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used the occasion to set down the legal principles that are the keynote of his conduct in the Little Rock crisis, and that would apply to integration crises to come. Reading from a paper that he and Attorney General Brownell had drawn up, the President noted that: 1) local, not federal, authorities have the responsibility for drawing up school integration plans; 2) local authorities and federal courts-not the President-have the job of setting the desegregation timetable to suit the Supreme Court dictum of desegregation "with all deliberate speed," but 3) a desegregation order from a federal court "must...
...executive departments. Instead, as the President said at his press conference, Congress has to cut out some of the programs that it has passed into law. As an example, Ike pointed to water-pollution control and vocational-training programs; they should, he said, be handed over to state and local governments. Possibly a time of high national prosperity is the right time to start closing out many of the federal subsidies to farmers, veterans, states, cities. Somewhere along the budgetary line, something will have to give-and, as the satellite news made clear, it cannot be defense...
President Eisenhower has refused to withdraw regular Army troops and federalized Arkansas National Guardsmen from the school until he is satisfied that the court-endorsed Central High integration plan will be enforced by local authorities...
Beginning this week, Adams House is also scheduling several "informal" art sessions led by Morton Sacks, a local artist who helped design the sets for a House production of Alcestis several years ago. Early in January, William Hawthorne, a professor of Engineering at Cambridge University, will stay at Adams briefly and talk with students there about education for engineers...
...pathetic little heroine of A Night of Levitation is a teen-ager who has fallen in love with a boarding-school teacher. Having been sent to an island resort to get over her infatuation, she promptly falls for a crude, shrewd young local fisherman. After a stolen hour of duel-like talk and romance by the sea, he simply lifts the money in her purse and disappears, leaving a note that reads...