Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broke and all but friendless, was jeered at as a "Spy for India!" and "Disruptionist!" He cockily replied that he meant to be Prime Minister, gradually patched together a shaky coalition of dissident factions, told each what he thought they wanted to hear (including Nehru-type neutralism), won local elections in East Pakistan and recouped his personal prestige. One day last September Suhrawardy was called in by President Iskander Mirza (who more or less runs Pakistan with army and civil-service support), was installed as Premier of what Mirza calls "controlled democracy...
...describes himself as "a thrifty man," the league's reasoning seemed to hold that an exceptional child could get proper emotional and intellectual nourishment only from moneyed, more highly educated parents. (Dameron has acquired a year and a half of college credits going to school part-time.) Other local adoption agencies disputed Social Worker O'Malley's financial point (Dori would obviously win a full scholarship), but they agreed that there are always problems arising from differences in the intelligence of children in the same family. Retorted Dameron: "If a couple had a very bright child...
Another Thing. Robin Day, the shrewd British interviewer who asked the questions for Britain's ITN, wanted to know how Nasser reconciled his stand against Communism at home with his overseas dealing with Russia. "Well," said the dictator, "local Communism is illegal, but dealing with Russia is another thing." Confronted with a direct question on Egyptian policy toward Israel-whether he really wanted to see its destruction as a state-Nasser tried desperately to fight his way between the Charybdis of a yes that would please Arabs and the Scylla of a no that would mollify the West. "There...
...past month Radio Peking has acknowledged that 15 million people are facing starvation in eastern Hopei province, and reported the firing of two vice governors and the downgrading of eight local functionaries in famine-stricken Kwangsi province for failing to transport foodstuffs to a stricken area, thus causing 550 people to die of hunger...
Slushy Beat. Criticism from the local inhabitants had died to a few back-terrace whispers (Sponsor Mrs. Louis Lorillard characterized the festival's early opponents as "not socially secure."). In fact the only really surprising sound at last week's festival came not from the familiar names but from a 28-piece band whose performers averaged only 14 years...