Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year's trip was for the purpose of teaching at Harvard under the Bacon professorship exchange program; in return, Professor Carl J. Friedrich is now at the College de France. Lecturing with a pince-nez poised in his right hand, the 80-year-old Frenchman beguiles his local students with his sharp intellect, his choice of words, and the movements of his long fingers which seem seem to point out his important ideas. Noticeably present at every lecture is the professor's wife. "Usually when I give a lecture," said Professor Siegfried, "my wife takes notes...
...Local florists gave varied comments on the issue. The proprietor of the Brattle Square Florist Shop said that there was no shortage, pointing to the piles of Christmas greens around his shop. Others said that though now they had fairly large stocks there would be a definite shortage in the next few days. They also admitted that the prices would rise significantly...
...surplus products, saying that it would be "ruinous to the health" of that area. Although he did not mention the U.S. by name, it was a clear reference to the recent sale of U.S. surplus wheat to Brazil. Said he, "The offer of those raw materials for soft or local currencies on long-payment terms...
Community Integration. Currently, N.P.A. reported, Creole is taking an imaginative new step: community integration. Instead of running towns, schools, hospitals and commissaries in the pattern dictated by early-day, oil-camp needs, the company is turning over such services "to new agencies and local businessmen. For example, a company school and hospital have been leased to religious orders, and the company has helped finance two privately owned supermarkets...
...would have seen it was in the cards." In Brussels, comely Countess Alvina Van Limburg Stirum, 43, was asked about rumors that she will soon be engaged to the ex-suitor of Britain's Princess Margaret, Group Captain Peter Townsend, 41, an air attache at Britain's local embassy. Snorted she: "Absolute nonsense." Seconded Townsend: "Complete nonsense." Added the countess: "I have a close sporting friendship with Captain Townsend." Back in England, meanwhile, Margaret's life seemed much the mixture as before. Looking a trifle wan (she was getting over a cold), the Princess ventured...