Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Local Civil Defense Director Edmund M. Burke Confirmed yesterday that a mass evacuation of Cambridge--with the University and Radcliffe participating--will be called this spring to test the city's new air raid warning system...
...nine years after Khoi's murder, the village of Co Bi remained under Communist control, making it impossible for members of the Roman Catholic Ngo family to find their relative's body. When at last the Reds were driven out, the local peasants were too afraid to talk. One ancient sampan man confessed that he had heard the shots and described the area where the murder had taken place. He promptly disappeared. An old ex-Communist surrendered to Diem's forces and admitted his son had taken part in the kidnaping, but the son had fled...
...Miami, ripening (54) Bon Vivant Lucius ("Luscious") Beebe, now publisher of the Virginia City, Nev. Territorial Enterprise, rolled into Jacksonville in his elegant private railroad car (accouterments: three master bedrooms, a Turkish bath, a wine closet, a St. Bernard dog woofing to the name of Mr. T-Bone Towser). Local reporters converged on the track where Beebe was parked with his traveling companion, Charles Clegg. Q.: "How much did this rolling stock cost?" Beebe (Shuddering slightly): "That's vulgar!" Clegg (to newsmen): "I wouldn't ask how much your suit cost." Beebe: "But Governor Harriman just bought...
With their speakers' slate wiped clean, the committee on arrangements decided to replace its guests with five Oxford, Miss, clergymen. After all. wrote Negro-baiting Editor Fred Sullens of the Jackson Daily News, "we may feel reasonably sure that [local clergymen] will not be spewing poison into the minds of our young people." The five untainted ones, however, respectfully declined. At week's end the committee on arrangements decided to turn Religious Emphasis Week into three days of meditation and prayer-without any clergymen around who might have dangerous ideas...
AUTO FREIGHT CHARGES for destinations in the South and West will be cut by Ford Motor Co. to satisfy complaints by dealers. Though Ford will still charge "phantom freight," i.e., on the basis of mileage from Detroit no matter how near dealers are to local assembly plants, the company will cut the charges as much as $49 on a Ford and $58 on a Lincoln. However, part of the reduction will be counteracted by a $16 wholesale price increase on Fords...