Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adding to this fear is the ever-present shadow of the heavily Chinese crown colony of Singapore, which handles 75% of Malaya's business, and is separated from the new nation only by a half-mile-long causeway. Singapore, which is due to get local autonomy in 1958, would like to become part of Malaya-a prospect which leaves the Tengku at best lukewarm. Singapore's energetic Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock (who a fortnight ago ordered the arrest of 35 of the colony's top Communists and offered paid one-way trips to Red China...
...Ranchers, penalized by taxes and government cheap-meat policies, are producing less beef and wool-the country's mainstay exports. So serious are the shortages that 4,000 packinghouse employees have been laid off and the government has even been forced at times to import cattle, both for local consumption and for export as corned beef. Moreover. Uruguay's Swiss-style federal-council government must continue to pay 150, 000 government employees (in a population estimated at 3,000,000). carry on an elaborate pension plan, and absorb the losses of at least seven mismanaged nationalized businesses...
Break Away. But relief was not in sight. The smaller local stations felt the show's humor too delicate and subtly modulated for listener tastes (though K.F.&O. once had a Sullivan-sized rating of 72% of the TV audience, drew 8,000 letters a week, went out over 57 stations). "There's no right place in TV for us any more." said 39-year-old Puppeteer Tillstrom. "People in TV would rather make money than provide entertainment." He was relieved to leave "the world of ulcers and tranquilizers. If a man has anything in his heart...
...editorial-page salute to the paper's founder, his colleague J. B. Martinez wrote an editorial in the paper's two-page Spanish section, bewailing the defeat of the federal school-aid bill. Third editorial, a scornful attack on parking meters, was written by a local poet and sometime newsman named Spud Johnson, who runs a private, one-page domain called "The Horse Fly" (subtitle: "Smallest & Most Inadequate Newspaper Ever Published...
Painter Stallknecht depicted her fellow townspeople with almost embarrassing clarity and force-in attitudes of worship, puzzlement or indifference-around three versions of Christ in modern dress. For a while, the paintings adorned the local Congregational Church. Then, upset at seeing itself mirrored in its own house of worship, the congregation voted to return the pictures to the artist...