Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finest, charge around $17 per day for an air-conditioned double room with meals, and serve splendid Indian food, e.g., curried shrimp, Tandoori chicken fried with spices. What to buy in India: fine carved ivory, emeralds and other gems well under U.S. prices, silk scarves and $10 saris, which local dressmakers turn info evening dresses for $40 v. $150 for sari dresses in the U.S. Average touring cost: about $26 per day per person...
...Philippine Capitol at Malacañan Palace, where President Magsaysay enjoys shaking hands with visitors, tours through the tropical countryside which include a look at native dancing and cockfighting plus a whopping big Filipino meal (a barbecued pig, prawns, coconut ice cream eaten out of a coconut shell). One local delicacy for the daring: balut, a duck egg ready to hatch...
...these ills, said Dr. Hodges, "there is a pretty reliable cure. First, call the press in. Tell them your story. Let them speak to a living doctor and let them quote him as a flesh-and-blood human being, not an anonymous spokesman for the local medical society. Give them a chance to ask questions, and answer them intelligently. Don't consider that medical matters are necessarily secret matters. Take time to spell words out when you must use words unknown to the public. Medical practice is for the public and, in effect, belongs to the public...
...argued that his paper was owned by a separate Michigan corporation. After an hour's discussion, the T-men left. Though Chicago Editor Carl Hirsch was shut off from his typewriter and copy paper, he moved over to another small Communist office, went back to cranking out the local news he writes for the Illinois edition of the Worker. After two days of the circulation windfall, the New York headquarters, which prints all six editions of the weekend Worker,* decided to run off 34,500 copies instead of the usual...
Compounding his problems, Richer, as a disciplinary measure, denied one of his students permission to attend a released-time religion class, thus antagonizing the local Roman Catholic priest. Later he called on the priest to explain that he had not realized that the religion period was mandatory, but made it clear in passing that he was opposed to the released-time idea anyway...