Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pilgrim costume) to give the ship and crew the publicity-tuned kind of welcome that made the proud Provincetown folk bitter. From Oklahoma came 40 genuine Indians led by former New York Yankee Pitcher Allie Reynolds (also in the group: part-time Indian Will Rogers Jr.); the local Mayflower Transit Co. pulled its vans into camera range; an airplane zoomed overhead trailing a banner exhorting the Pilgrims to dine at "The Leaning Tower of Pizza...
...Pilgrims' pride was not wholly fulfilled. Before Mayflower II would dock permanently near the site of-Plymouth Rock, the ship would scud southward to New York harbor for the summer, there to become a tourist attraction (adults: 90? a head) for local investors. Though on the whole the voyage was duly applauded along the northeast coast, there were unstilled rumblings from the South. Celebrators of Virginia's great Jamestown festival, annoyed that Mayflower II had arrived just in time to steal the festival's thunderous publicity occasioned by an international naval review of 114 vessels from...
Thousands of Italians who once had meat only once a week are now eating meat daily. The evening peace of every stone-walled town is broken by the noise of motor scooters as the local youths tear up and down the ancient streets. Visitors to the Milan fair came away dazzled by the rich fabrics, handsome machinery that Italy can and is producing. Poverty remains a dismal view down many a dark alley-but compared to what it was like before, for many there has been an increase in hope and a diminution of despair...
...grounds, and attracted thousands fewer. Even those who came stared apathetically at the cans of "Khrushchev corn," the cream-colored Volga car with its white-walled tires so obviously painted, and the dresses and fabrics which Poland's women sniffed at as far below local standards...
...Beaches. In Myrtle Beach, S.C., local boosters succeeded in a nationwide search for a living namesake by finding Mrs. Myrtle Beach of Fort Madison, Iowa, mother of three - Sandy, Marshy and Rocky...