Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...include brand new modern houses with heat-resistant, rainproof aluminum roofs, a new school, a new hospital, a church, a radio station, scientifically planted groves of coconut designed for maximum copra production, plantations of papaya and breadfruit seedlings, and a whole new fleet of canoes for the local fishermen...
Last week, as Sukarno's opponents had predicted, the Communists began to convert presidential smiles into the hard currency of power. In the first of a series of local elections, Indonesia's capital city of Djakarta (pop. 4,000,000) voted in a new municipal council. Two years ago, in Indonesia's first general election, the Communists ran a poor fourth in Djakarta. This time, trading on Sukarno's almost mystic hold over the Indonesian masses, the Reds increased their vote from 96,000 to 135,000, ran second only to the powerful Masjumi (Moslem) Party...
...upon hard times. In 1888, reduced to an impoverished patch of mangrove swamp about the size of the state of Delaware, it was forced to accept British protection. The British set up a few roads, schools and hospitals, put a Resident in charge to keep an eye on the local Sultan, and, for the rest, let Brunei wallow in its primitive backwash...
...even plants finished feature articles in dailies and some magazines. In addition to Sunday supplements-often modeled on TV Guide, the most successful magazine (circ. 5,315,659) started since the war-most newspapers each day feature syndicated TV critics and program previews, give free rein to scores of local' TV columnists. Though many newspapers balked for years at carrying radio program listings without charge, the great majority of dailies now carry TV logs as routinely as they run weather forecasts. In fact, says San Francisco News Editor Charles H. Schneider, "television is the weather in every living room...
...said they would no longer pay for the space, the papers-the Albuquerque Journal and evening Tribune, the Santa Fe New Mexican-dropped their listings. The TV stations countered by showering Albuquerque (pop. 175,500) with 165,000 free program logs, while the far-roving Denver Post snatched at local circulation by adding Albuquerque programs to its daily TV log. "These television stations are asking for the moon," protested the New Mexican's Managing Editor Joe Lawler. Invoking lunar logic himself, Lawler added: "If we list their programs as a service to readers, what's to stop...