Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evil eye of the puritan Watch and Ward Society opened as the year began and, represented by Cambridge Mayor Nichols, decided that a local production of Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude" was not suitable for presentation. Censorship further plagued the University when several orders of books for French and other foreign literature courses were forbidden to be shipped to the Phillips Book Store because they were "obscene." Among the restricted works: Rousseau's Confessions, Rabelais's Oeuvres, and Boccaccio's Decameron...
...French dispatched a patrol from the nearest outpost 15 miles away. They found half a dozen dead men surrounded by hysterically screaming women, tearing their cheeks with their fingernails until the blood came. At dawn, said the women, 100 uniformed fellaghas had surrounded the village. They had seized the local policeman, cut off his hands, gouged out his eyes, then killed him and his five children. Then they rounded up every male over 15 and herded them off down the rocky ravine toward Kasba Mechta...
Edward Sullivan, president of the Building Service local, said that his union's agreement to the eligibility of the employees depended upon the authenticity of statements concerning the individuals made at an informal Labor Relations Commission hearing prior to the election. He said that the protest was lodged after the local decided that the statements were not true. Sullivan would not reveal the nature of the statements...
Sullivan stated that the Building Service local had no definite plans to seek jurisdictional elections among other groups. "If we lose this time," he continued, "I will never lead another organizing drive at Harvard...
Unorganized employees at the chemical laboratories and at the Arnold Arboretum will vote Thursday on representation by the local, and 236 University janitors who now belong to the HUERA will vote on June 18. The local has also petitioned for elections among members of the Groundsmen's and Truckmen's Associations...