Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some of the pre-practice matches against local college teams, Cleary did some of his own scouting for Coach Cooney Weiland's team. "Providence College and Boston College are the two teams Harvard will have to beat this year," he said. "I doubt if B.U. and Brown (the other two teams the Amateur sextet faced) will give you much trouble...
...they had mounted and sustained in the "Cradle of the Confederacy" an almost total boycott of the city's segregated buses (TIME, April 2 ). Led by a handful of well-educated and young Negro leaders-notably by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 27, pastor of a local Baptist church-they had efficiently put together and operated a car pool of some 200 vehicles to ferry themselves to and from work. Now the leaders and lawyers sat glumly in the Montgomery County courthouse waiting for the state circuit court to outlaw the Negro car pool on the charge...
...province of Nghean, which lies south of Hanoi, is a troubled ground that in an earlier day produced wispy, goateed Communist Dictator Ho Chi Minh. According to reports reaching South Viet Nam, peasants armed with swords and farm tools surprised Communist guards and took their weapons. Some Viet Minh local units joined the rebels, too. General Hoang Sam's crack 304th Division drove the insurgents into the hills, where they are now setting up the kind of guerrilla resistance that Comrade Ho pioneered...
...sales of fresh meat, vegetables and fruit, which are not on the surplus list; the landfall of free groceries apparently encourages many to improve their diets with food they could not otherwise buy. But the majority of distributions are made through public channels, and are, in effect, competition for local grocers. Small grocers, fighting to survive the inroads of chain stores and supermarkets, have already felt the press of the Government's burgeoning program. Wholesale grocery sales in Arkansas have dropped about 14%, and grocers blame at least half the drop on the surplus-disposal program. "We think...
...technical prowess with the underdeveloped nations of the world. But the liberal looks first to Government to do many of the tasks on the ground that Government can do them quicker. The conservative, who knows that the hasty solution can be fatal, thinks first of private means, then local government, and only of the Federal Government as a last resort. Says Yale...