Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four churches during Sunday services. On New Year's Day a bomb exploded in Algiers' swankiest hotel. Others were tossed at cafés all over Algeria; cyclists were machine-gunned on the road. The one-day total: 13 killed, 23 wounded. Next day, after a local train was derailed east of Oran, rescuers found the bodies of six Europeans in the wreckage; two of the women had been raped and disemboweled...
...wish for snow. Four days later the skiers had their snow. Up above, the Alpine peaks were shrouded with ominous evidence of storm and fury. Torn between heartache and indignation, the people of Chamonix gazed aloft, muttered about laws to prevent off-season climbing, and gazed hopefully at the local guides, who refused to budge. "Their action was voluntary," said the guides. "Even to save two men, you can't risk the lives of ten or 15 rescuers with wives and children...
...this year's Council has, at least in this respect, not been very different from its predecessors. In past years Councils justified their existence primarily in terms of reports on local subjects, reports which while at times somewhat nebulous or mis-directed, have often served as valuable aids to the Administration. This year's Council has, however, staked its life on a different program: achieving concrete benefits for the students...
NOVEMBER A Cambridge Crime Commission accuses Harvard Criminoligist William McCord of being the local Mafia leader. Atomic submarine the Nautilus is destroyed by an unknown assailant. A Radcliffe senior finds a pot of gold at rainbow's end and walks away from it. "I don't accept presents from a strange Man." The Brattle Theater purchases Radio City...
...Local press comment has continued critical on the proposal to dismiss Jordan and pay his salary for the next two years (about $25,000). Columnists have charged that the move involved a surrender to alumni pressure and asserted that Harvard was still attempting to play "big-time football" while saying...