Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reacted complacently. The city commission went through the barest motions of offering compromises, e.g., the Negroes were promised that the bus drivers would show them "partial courtesy." Mayor W. A. ("Tacky") Gayle appointed a committee to negotiate with the Negroes-and named as a member the head of the local White Citizens' Council...
...clock King goes home for lunch and an hour's rest. Then back to work. The phone rings and a secretary answers. Columbus, Ohio is calling: Could Dr. King address the local N.A.A.C.P. chapter? The secretary flips through an engagement book: "I'm awfully sorry, but Dr. King is so terribly booked up now. Could he make it some time later on?" A Negro comes in with a crudely printed hate sheet he has found on the street, hands it to a secretary, who smiles wanly: "Just another one. We get these all the time." The telephone rings...
Three months ago, thanks to the efforts of the two ministers, the territorial assemblies of the provinces of Black Africa and Madagascar were for the first time elected by universal suffrage. Last week's vote granted these assemblies real if limited powers over local affairs. (Control of defense, foreign policy, justice and higher education was kept by the French government.) And while the provincial governors will still be appointed by France, each governor will hereafter be obliged to clear his decisions on local affairs with a "council of government," or cabinet, whose members will be elected by the local...
Exploding the devices from balloons will reduce this local fallout. There will be no tower to vaporize (the balloon hardly counts), and if the balloon is tethered high enough, the rising cloud will drag no hot dust with...
...Columbia men do not consider their work complete. It measured only one of the many fission products. It had nothing to do with the genetic perils of radioactivity. It paid no attention to areas (such as the U.S. Southwest) where "local" fallout has been heavy. It used a very small sample: 500 cases out of 2.5 billion humans...