Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exactly 60 seconds. Pat was introduced without fail at every meeting, usually as ''the best campaigner in the Nixon family." While that was a pardonable overstatement, efficient, proper Pat Nixon is indeed a good campaigner. She did all of the packing for trips, and astonished local women's-page editors by traveling with one suitcase.* Despite the campaign's pace she always managed to appear on the platform looking chic, fresh, interested and pleased, even when a meeting lasted three hours. Says she: "The important thing is not to look tired...
...decision: the community's 25 Negro students were to be integrated with the 1,000 white youngsters in the school system at the start of the next semester. All went well until the White Citizens' Council of Arkansas and White America, Inc. moved into town and with local segregationists began a pressure and terror campaign against parents and school-board members. But the school board held firm; following the procedure laid down by the Supreme Court decision, the board sought and won from the U.S. District Court at Jonesboro, Ark. an injunction forbidding further interference in school-board...
...which had taken the school board's side in the appeal as a "friend of the Court") saw a "nationwide impact" in the hands-off warning to segregationists, believed that the Hoxie suit might well mark a turning point in the integration fight. Reason: by clearly establishing that local officials are entitled to protection from the U.S. courts when they perform duties imposed upon them by the U.S. Constitution, the decision gave a nudge to school boards that realize they must ultimately obey the Supreme Court's integration edict but have dragged their feet in fear of local...
...over to the rebels. Miskolc (pop. 136,000), near the Czech border, Hungary's second most important industrial center, fell to the rebels at week's end. At the village of Magyarovar, 15 miles from the Austrian border, security police shot 75 people, wounded 200 others, when local farmers showed resistance. The village was relieved by rebel forces led by a rebel commander who described himself as "the colonel." The rebel commander told foreign correspondents that "national councils" were in control of large areas of western, southern and northern Hungary and were planning a march on Budapest, where...
Today, treatment has settled down to three patterns, the choice depending on local option. In one hospital in any major U.S. city, an acute case will be dosed heavily with aspirin and nothing else at first; in another, he will get aspirin and gold salts, and in a third, one of the hormones. In any good medical center doctors will switch from one regimen to another if they are not satisfied with results...