Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SOUTH: The Attorney General would have the right to burst into all sorts of situations where he has no business, harass and thus drive from public office state or local officials whom he might suspect and, in a sense, have the unthinkable power of actually making laws. Example: he could get a court order breaking up a White Citizens' Council meeting...
...learn that its sportive Sultan had secretly annexed still another wife. The newcomer was lissom, 20-year-old Hathifah Binte Abdul Rashid Alis, also a graduate of the Kuala Lumpur dance halls, who in 1955 was elected "joget queen" as Malaya's finest practitioner of the traditional local dance...
...capital of Turkey been much larger, the incident might have passed unnoticed, but before long all of Ankara seemed to be talking about Idil Biret, the amazing four-year-old daughter of a local sugar-refinery official. One day in 1946 little Idil sat down at the piano, and without a note of music before her, dashed off a Bach piece she had just heard over the radio. The story gave newspapers and music lovers an idea: Why couldn't the state send Turkey's child prodigies abroad for proper study...
...focus the national attention on a serious problem. While the U.S. Senate's McClellan committee has produced the national headlines on labor racketeering, it was vigilant newsmen, from Des Moines to Portland, Ore. and back to Scranton, Pa., who sparked the Senate investigation and provided the scattered local fragments (TIME, June 4, et seq.) that fell into a nationwide kaleidoscope of corruption and violence. The pattern of partnership showed sharply this week as Senator John McClellan's men wound up their hearings on union terrorism in Scranton...
Dirt for a Dossier. When a house built by a nonunion contractor (TIME, April 29) was dynamited in 1954, Murphy headlined his lead editorial: GET THE DYNAMITERS! He followed it up in the next ten weeks with eleven more editorials, pounding at local authorities to enlist county and state investigators for the man hunt. By last October, when a jury convicted four union leaders who had ordered the dynamiting, Murphy had racked up 27 editorials on the case, while the Times reporters had unearthed enough dirt to hand the McClellan committee a bulging dossier...