Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...restiveness, most of the nation's estimated 3,500,000 Negro votes probably will go to Adlai Stevenson again this year. The 75% margin by which he won them in 1952, however, is now expected to be reduced to something like 60%-65%. In states where national or local races are close, e.g., Missouri, California. Michigan, Ohio, New York, such a pro-Republican shift could be all-important...
...Lewis Douglas, Arizona banker, the New Deal's first (1933) Director of the Budget, U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain under Truman and three-time Demo cratic Congressman, backed Eisenhower (as he did in 1952) for his unique international "stature and substance," but promised to work hard for the local Arizona Democratic ticket...
Kiss & Rule. Leader after leader rose to explain what one protesting resolution called "the government's apparent inability to reverse trends resulting from Socialist maladministration" and to "use its strong majority to implement more forcibly its election promises." Minister of Housing and Local Government Duncan Sandys pledged that he would decontrol 10 million rent-controlled houses. Chan cellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan delivered a lengthy appeal for his plan to take Britain into a new European free-trade area (TIME, Oct. 15). But by far the most ringing response to the rank and file's complaints came...
...irreproachable. On call to his parishioners for religious consolation at any hour, he was also arch and sporting at children's church picnics, full of charm at meetings of the church mothers, and a lively, intelligent man of the world with the businessmen of the local vestry. There were those, of course, whose evil tongues sought mischief in gossip over the frequent calls paid by the Rev. Mr. Ross on Wealthy Widow Kathleen Ryall about four years ago after the death of her husband-but, as Philip's devoted wife Eileen herself said, "Mrs. Ryall...
...Rocks. Other princes, facing a future as bleak, were also busy adjusting themselves to the new order. Some have already retired to live off their riches in the luxury of European high life, where a prince is still a prince whether he rules or not. Some entered local politics to fight the Congress Party, which brought them low. Some have even joined the Congress Party; a few have become scholars and farmers. Many more are turning their estates and their palaces over to the tourist trade. As the tiger-hunting season approached last week, the Maharajas of Bhopal and Cooch...