Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nigger Lovers." In two distant and different Southern small towns last week hell and high water almost came. In Clinton, Tenn. (pop. 4,000) white mobs rioted in the tree-shaded streets and the old courthouse square to stop the enrollment of twelve Negro students in the local high school. Clinton is the only place in Tennessee (except the federal enclave of Oak Ridge) to integrate its school, and outsiders came streaming in last week to lash the little town back into line...
...night a howling mob of 1,000 whites, inflamed by a self-appointed foe of integration from Washington, D.C. named John Kasper, banged and battered the cars of Negroes passing through, blocked traffic, swamped and demoralized the local police. Next night the showdown came. Forty citizens of Clinton were sworn in to help the eight Clinton cops in a vigilante "peace guard." They armed themselves with "everything we can get our hooks on," and formed a skirmish line before the mob in the courthouse square. "Lock them up if they give you any lip," ordered the submachine gun-toting commander...
...House candidates took 30. The ratio in ten Southern states was 59 to 92. To Jim Finnegan's close-calculating mind, the 1956 answer was obvious: Stevenson must associate his campaign more closely with those of the state candidates and attract voters to himself through their local popularity...
With that exchange the Democratic nominees took off on an exhausting 5,032-mile air tour to confer with party leaders from 34 states at five regional meetings. Democratic planners thus hoped to get a head start on Republicans by coordinating the national campaign with state and local candidates, exchanging coattails ta the mutual advantage of all. It was the first team operation by the vastly different running mates-different in background, upbringing, character and viewpoint. But Stevenson and Kefauver were clearly determined to get along and forget old antipathies-and they could joke about their past rivalry...
...Nationalist army leaders, Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek last week halted thorium exports to the U.S., canceled the 1955 U.S.-Brazilian agreement to cooperate in exploring Brazil for deposits of radioactive minerals. The U.S. embassy in Rio first learned of the turnabout by reading about it in the local newspapers. Brazil's troublemaking Communists, who could never have brought off such a coup by themselves, whooped with delight. Bannered the Communist daily, Imprensa Popular: HISTORICAL VICTORY