Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long time getting passed by 36 states. In the interim, he is ready with a plan for evading the Supreme Court decision by "legal and constitutional means." Says he: "The effective way to oppose integrated schools ... is through the government of the states ... If we contest at the local level, by individual school districts, or by a county, or on a community basis, we are sitting ducks and will be picked off one by one . . . The state and no one but the state can segregate under the police powers . . . The state, if necessary, can abolish school districts, create other ones...
...Also of local interest will be the freshman medley relay teams, coached by captain Al Gordon, subbing for ailing coach Al Wilson...
...City was mechanization. The Caterpillar powerplant with hydraulic ice cream dipper was part of the sidewalk force. Special emphasis was laid on clearing the sidewalks by Cambridge Mayor, Eddie J. Sullivan, so that local police could issue tickets for longstanding meter violations without getting their hip-boots wet. Asked if the Police would tag buried cars, the Mayor snapped, "If we can find them, we'll tag them. They parked the damned things, didn't they?" Mechanization met vain but fierce resistance on the Square, however, as enraged townsmen, swearing the machines were part of a University plot, barracaded themselves...
...Only the local merchants successfully fought the elements. Although most Harvard Square stores closed their doors yesterday afternoon, Stonestreets remained open for business and solf three cord suits to optimistic College students. Business at the Varsity Liquor Store was better than ever...
...Local police, though bullied by the storm, would not give ground to College students and promised that cars parked on the wrong side of the street, as well as those in the middle, would be towed away, "if we can get around...