Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After their political Geiger counter had picked up the clicks from last week's local elections across the U.S., the national chairmen of the Democratic and Republican Parties were ready with separate and distinct analyses. Glowed Democrat Paul Butler: "After making full allowance for local factors, there is no doubt that this has national significance. The vote yesterday was clearly a further vote of confidence in the Democratic Party." Grumped Republican Leonard Hall: "Tuesday's elections had no national significance. It is a mistake to read a national trend into these local elections in an off year...
...somewhere between. The Democrats won the elections, but it would have been surprising if they had not won. The congressional elections of 1954, which took both the House and the Senate away from the G.O.P., established that the Democratic Party has an edge when the issues are more local than national and when neither Dwight Eisenhower's name nor his Administration's record are directly at issue. Last week's results confirmed that political fact, and extended it slightly...
...morning Willey will conduct a special three-hour session on new study methods of prehistoric culture contact. All anthropology students, he said, are expected to attend this session, at least in part. He plans to present a new method of analyzing the fusion of two different cultures with only local artifacts, not written records...
...fingerprinting is done, according to the Selective Service booklet, to prevent "any unauthorized persons" from taking the exam. The results of the test, given twice a year, are forwarded to the local boards, but do not "in themselves" determine eligibility for deferment, the pamphlet states...
Harvard has given Cambridge officials no co-operation at all on plans for future development of the city, a director of the local League of Women Voters charged yesterday. She made the same accusation against M.I.T...