Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school districts with both white and Negro children, 18 have wholly or partly ended segregation, with Wilmington entirely integrated and the southern half of the state still segregated. But the U.S. District Court has ordered the easygoing state board of education, which had left integration up to local choice, to draw up a statewide integration program...
...state-supported colleges. But in eastern Texas, where 90% of the Negro schoolchildren live, segregation fences are as high and unscalable as ever. The segregationist camp showed its power this year when the state legislature passed a law under which any school district that integrates without first holding a local referendum loses its share of state school funds. With that law on the books, no more white schools have opened doors to Negroes. But a fortnight ago a federal district judge directed the city of Dallas to start integrating its schools next semester regardless of state laws...
...running Midwest Teamster Czar James Riddle Hoffa, who claimed that he would win the brotherhood's presidency at the quinquennial convention in Miami Beach, Fla. Sept. 30. Tom Hickey, longtime New York Teamster enemy of Hoffa, was one; the other was Tom Haggerty, secretary-treasurer of a milkwagon local in Chicago. At the next table, but out of earshot, was Jimmy Hoffa himself, dining and dealing with a quartet of his cronies. They were Hoffa's kind of company: one was a longtime Western Conference muscleman; another was recently convicted of perjury; of the remaining...
...Cents a Point. In the days that followed, while the King took the waters, he was asked his every wish. Music? He liked Carmen and Aïda. The local symphony changed its program and saved a row of seats. But on the appointed night, the King decided to stay home instead, so fascinated was he by the Japanese magician who had been brought in to amuse his youngest sons while he was at the concert...
...knows how the little red flower came to the Carolinas, but when the U.S. Department of Agriculture heard the news, it went into action, sending a task force of scientists to help the local authorities. A quick look at the literature told the scientists that Striga asiatica is one of the world's worst pests. Serious infestation can reduce corn yield to zero. Eradication is almost impossible...