Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles beyond). Gone, therefore, was the dream of longer-range Army-built missiles that could (as the Army Information Digest recently said) attack "distant troop concentrations, marshaling areas and communication centers" and destroy "enemy missile sites, atomic stockpiles and airfields." The Army was assigned responsibility for point, i.e., local defense and the franchise on such radar-directed, land-to-air missiles as Nike, with a range of not more than 100 miles...
Giving way to highway spot checks and roadblocks, wolf-pack state troopers and more alert state and local officials, the U.S.'s traffic-death toll declined by some 12% during October. The month's 3,450 traffic-death total reversed a steady, month-by-month (for 19 months) increase, said the National Safety Council. If the trend to more careful driving continues, the U.S.'s road toll for 1956 should hold below the council's earlier death estimate of 42,000-the population of Greenwich, Conn., Oshkosh, Wis. or Vancouver, Wash...
...particularly in the present context of inefficiency and apathy. Furthermore, the FCDA plan, envisioning expenditures up to thirty-five billion dollars for shelters alone, is unrealistic from a budgetary standpoint. More important military needs forbid such an outlay for civil defense. Any comprehensive program must divide the cost with local beneficiaries...
...really did ascertain the facts of the case, since the two students involved fled from the elevator's wreckage before they could be questioned. Last week, however, a Greenwich Village weekly newspaper, the Village Voice, published an interview with Paul M. Hollister, Jr. '41, a local author and painter. Half the article was devoted to his recollections on cracking up the elevator...
...International Relations seems to take little cognizance of any common relevance among the operations of widely-separated special programs--International legal studies at the Law School, research in foreign economic problems under the Business School and the Department of Economics, the graduate Defence Studies Program, and work in local and regional public administration at the Littauer Center. And the undergraduate's understanding of his area is similarly handicapped, not only by a lack of a real course plan, but by significant gaps among the courses available...