Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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James Duff, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania. At a dinner in Manhattan's Commodore Hotel a couple of weekends ago, about ten of the Ikemen specifically decided: 1) to encourage pro-Eisenhower candidates to run next year for congressional and local offices across the U.S., 2) to reactivate the Citizens for Eisenhower movement of 1952. They do not intend to put any pressure on the President to run, but they do see the need for what one of them calls "a movement of rededication" to Eisenhower...
...understanding that you would maintain your lifelong affiliation with the Unitarian Church of Bloomington, your home town. Descended from active Unitarians on your mother's side and equally active Presbyterians, including many ministers, on your father's side, we understand perfectly that you have found a local church home without forsaking a lifelong commitment, and that you have also united your parental religious endowments...
Early Career: Built a prosperous law practice in Liverpool, specializing in insurance; at 32 became chairman of local town council, imposed air-raid precautions long before most Britons admitted possibility of war. Three months before war began, quit law practice to join territorial army; rose rapidly to colonel on staff of British Second Army, where he served as observer at Sicily landings, helped plan Normandy, where he landed on D-day-plus-one. Brigadier at war's end, he emerged with the O.B.E. for services in invasion planning...
Challenge & Reservations. Like elections everywhere, local needs and local personalities loomed large. But Mendès-France one day last week demonstrated, in perhaps the most important utterance of the campaign, that "tomorrow's secret" might hold consequences pertinent to France's future as an international power and as a Western ally. Mendès, looking for votes on the left, made a move to woo voters away from the Communists-and did so by bending his policy to appeal to pro-Communist voters...
...regain the villagers' confidence by demonstrating "the presence, power and benevolence of France." The benevolence is the job of some 260 specially trained French officers, sent out with a corporals' guard to the disaffected areas with orders to start public works and public-health programs, recruit a local militia. "Eighty percent of the natives just want to be protected from trouble," said one young district officer in the Aures Mountains. "So long as they believe that we're here to stay in strength, they will not support the fellagha...