Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Watching its North African territories slip away. France at long last read its lesson. Demanding powers to establish local government and to give natives equal voting rights in its other colonies in "Black Africa," the Mollet government declared: "We must not permit ourselves to be outstripped and dominated by events, to yield subsequently to demands when they express themselves in violent terms." By an amazing 477 to 99, the Assembly gave the government the powers it had requested. For good measure, the government itself belatedly approved reforms for Algeria. Sample: 50-50 shares for Algerian sharecroppers (to whom heretofore landlords...
...city's buses white and black ride together. There is no segregation at city hall concerts or at public libraries. Of the 45 city councilmen, six are nonwhite. Last year, at the direction of Nationalist Prime Minister Strydom, the provincial government passed a law giving the local governor power to impose apartheid on reluctant urban communities and bill them for its cost. Cape Town ignored the ordinance...
McKeldin saw some merit in the local brewers' objection to the high Canadian tariffs on U.S. beer, but he refused to ban Carling's in retaliation. "I frown upon restrictive tariffs maintained by this country and others," said Free Trader McKeldin. "However, American leadership toward the elimination of such trade barriers, would not be helped by similar acts of shortsighted contrariness...
Mayor Edward J. Sullivan slipped into town last night with several large snowflakes and distressed the local world to some extent. The CRIMSON, however, will not. At all. Until April...
Allen, representing public schools, said that the public school teacher is gradually gaining more opportunity to do research as well as teaching. "Educators are becoming increasingly important as leaders of their communities, helping to form state and national, as well as local policies," he said...