Word: localize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cast of Characters. The statistics suggest that the press can use TV far more than TV can use the press. This is most evident in the growth of a new species of newsman, the full-time local TV critic, who on many papers matches judgments daily with such syndicated TV pundits as the Herald Tribune's John Crosby, the New York Times's Jack Gould, Hearst's Jack O'Brian-and often comes out ahead. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Bill Jahn, who runs monthly popularity polls that frequently draw more than 1,000 returns...
Last week Japan stepped up a nationwide campaign against the big crime wave. It ordered increased street patrols for the summer, began sending out pamphlets to parents and teachers on how to deal with delinquents, assigned crime-prevention specialists to lecture at civic organizations across the country. Meanwhile, local school boards are increasing their budgets to train teachers in guidance; the Tokyo board alone will spend fully one-third of its funds to combat delinquency. Said Director of Detectives Heiichi Kosugi of the Tokyo police: "If something is not done soon, the universities will become hotbeds of intelligent crime...
...represented a sleekly modern office-apartment equipped with a pushbutton intercom system and a radio. The booted, black-uniformed officer listened for a' while to a local radio singer, questioned a corduroy-jacketed "freedom fighter," and chased a redhead in green strapless evening gown about his desk. 'What was going on? Answer: A modern-dress production of Puccini's Tosca...
Dubrovnik (July 1-Aug. 31) is the summer gathering place for Yugoslavia's best singers, dancers and composers. The festival's staple program performed by both visiting and local artists contains such works as Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, with a sprinkling of more modern works by composers such as Ernest Bloch and Manuel de Falla. A big annual drawing card: a great variety of fine wines from all parts of Yugoslavia...
Santander (Aug. 2-Sept. 2) does not depend so much on tourists as some of the others. Purpose of the festival, say Spanish officials, is to improve the "cultural education" of the local citizens, who fight one another for seats. Scene: the city's 4,000-capacity Plaza Porticada, a onetime bull ring, canvas-roofed for the occasion. Among this year's impressive attractions: the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Royal Opera Ballet of Stockholm. The Spanish government underwrites the festival's annual deficit of 2,000,000 pesetas (some $60,000), pegs prices...