Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coachella Valleys form one of the wonders of the New World. Stretching from the Mexican border to the outskirts of Los Angeles, the area is a lush, natural hothouse, larger than the state of Delaware and yielding as many as three crops a year ("You plant the seeds," a local saying goes, "and jump out of the way"). Within 50 years the valleys have been changed from sun-cracked desert (summer temperatures range from 100° F. to 120° F.) into one of the biggest irrigated regions on earth, and one of the richest. In this improbable winter garden...
Undaunted by a new law that, for the first time, makes it a punishable offense (maximum penalty: three years' imprisonment) to file a fraudulent national income-tax return, Italy's taxpayers last week kicked off their annual game of "Guess My Income" with local community tax collectors. The rules of play are simple and timehonored: 1) in public declarations made without oath, each taxpayer makes a guess at his income; 2) the municipal tax collector, sizing up the taxpayer's visible possessions, then makes his guess anywhere from two to thirty times as high and racks...
...Indonesia's revered President Soekarno decided to take unto himself a second. Indonesia's Moslem clubwomen, surprisingly as jealous of female prerogative as those in any U.S. midwestern town, were icy with disapproval, but there was little they could do about it. Blessed by Islamic law and local custom, the nation's second First Lady, a divorcee of 32, was duly ensconced in the presidential palace at Bogor. Cleaving loyally to the first First Lady, 31-year-old Fatmawati, all that the indignant clubwomen could do was to snub the interloper (TIME, Oct. 24) and refer...
...photography, though, is remarkably good. The rough terrain over which the Thomas' lugged their equipment is attractive, even for a travelogue. The Thomas' also have assiduously gone around to all the local religious festivals. The result is excerpts from religious dances that run ten hours a day for two weeks, as well as shots of Buddhist pilgrims who spend up to thirty days continually prostrating themselves before Lhasa's temples. Many of their subjects, like the Dalai Lama, had never been photographed before, and may never never again, as the Communists have just topped off their invasion with a Peking...
...delay in delivery of steel has prevented installation of seats in the Donald C. Watson Rink, and local building inspectors have therefore limited the number of spectators...