Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more and more it began to look as though compromise and the Dawson line might founder on the political facts of life. Last week pressure from Negro voters (who could conceivably tip the balance in nine Northern states) was beginning to tell on local Democratic organizations. In Detroit, Negro delegates walked out of the First Congressional District Democratic convention in an argument over national-convention representation, and powerful Michigan Democrats were threatening privately to force a rip-roaring national convention floor fight to get a strong civil-rights plank in the Democratic platform. If they try, they will get considerable...
...keep up this pace forever. He announced his next step: a personal amnesty to all who confessed. At each village, when not dancing or feasting, the Sultan retired to a secluded hut, where villagers arrived singly and in small groups to confess their errors and offer information about the local Communists. More than 300 Communists surrendered to the Sultan personally, and he got so much information about others that the security police rounded them up in droves...
...Newspapers, many of them built to greatness on the tradition of fearless reporting, are only going through the motions of covering beats or waiting for the news releases to be thrown through the transom . . . It's much easier to hire wire services than to gather, write and print local news . . . You don't get into arguments with your readers over...
Police in the Refrigerator. Newspapers are weakest in coverage, said Editor Seltzer, just where they should be strongest-in their own communities, "overwhelmed as they are by tremendous change, industrial expansion, educational inadequacies, housing shortages, racial frictions . . . Local situations are the conversation pieces for nine-tenths of the talk among newspaper readers. Most papers, however, give nine-tenths of Page One to news from remoter and less controversial areas. They then check with the New York Times to see if their judgments are upheld...
...jobs. Recordings, spinning off the presses in multimillions, create lucrative jobs for a comparatively few musicians in a few centers, but are pushing live musicians elsewhere off their chairs at an increasing rate. TV is causing a further deterioration of the situation, since few of the 2,600 local TV stations in the U.S. try to compete with big network shows produced in New York and Los Angeles; most employ no musicians...