Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last-ditch attempt to stop the violence, local Congress Party leaders called in one of Gandhi's most respected followers, Morarji Desai, an ascetic, deeply religious Gujarati, who as Chief Minister of Bombay has proved himself one of India's best administrators and a likely successor to Nehru...
...Ahmedabad's students promptly called a janata, i.e., a "people's curfew," for the day he was to speak. At dawn large bands of students began to swarm through Ahmedabad's streets warning shopkeepers to close up for the day. Only people with "passes" signed by local Socialist leaders were permitted on the streets and pigtailed girls of 15 or 16 stopped pedestrians to check on their passes. By midafternoon the student curfew was almost 100% effective, and at 4:15, shortly before Desai was due to speak, a messenger hurried up to tell him that...
...years U.S. citizens have looked with detachment, if not with distaste, on the efforts of colonial powers to suppress local agitations led by fanatic students demanding independence. Last week just such a situation faced the U.S. itself on blood-bought Okinawa, 330 miles south of Japan...
...giveaway shows, as many critics claim, debasing TV and offering a vulgar substitute for real entertainment? A few winning contestants have been dogged by their fame and fortune into worthwhile pursuits, or received lifetime annuities in odd ways. One giveaway winner now has his own local quiz program, another is being pressured to run for Congress. Stock Market Wizard Leonard Ross, II, who won $100,000 on The Big Surprise, is busy studying the price of coffee in the U.S. for a leading Brazilian businessman. Marine Corps Captain Dick McCutchen, who won the jackpot on both $64,000 shows...
...Times in a hotel lobby, protested Ioudly; "What a lousy trick!" San Francisco newspaper executives were more discreet, but they began some hard thinking about the future. They stressed probable obstacles to electronic distribution of a national newspaper e.g., the opposition of the typographical unions, the problem of handling local advertising. Times Managing Editor Turner Catledge who pronounced the experiment a technical success granted that the paper had not yet thought through such problems. But he said that the Times was looking ahead to distributing its editions not only in the U.S., but all around the world...