Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Israel's Premier Moshe Sharett appealed to world Jewry for funds to buy arms, raised $1,000,000 in the first week of a local Israeli campaign for donations to buy more weapons. In the Knesset, former Terrorist Leader Menachim Beigin called for a "preventive war" against Egypt...
...Queen. But Freddie got more than he gave. The British reshaped the protectorate's Legislative Council to include, for the first time, more Africans than whites. They promised not to press the East African Federation. They gave Buganda control over its own natural resources, schools and local government. Africans were allotted three jobs in the protectorate "Cabinet," the first time that African hands have been allowed to touch executive power...
After a slam-bang 40,000-mile dash through 17 countries, Washington's Hostess-with-Mostes' Perle Mesta, still a little breathless in her mink stole and red velvet cloche, reported to a gathering of local newshens: "The Far East is sizzling." Of her near-fatal brush with rioting Vietnamese students in Saigon (TIME, Aug. 1), the lady who has often placated riotous guests with caviar and champagne confessed: "I had no idea what a mob was like. It was a miracle that I got out of Saigon with all my luggage." Biggest flop of her trip came...
...church membership, the statisticians of the religious bodies often depend for their figures on the unchecked estimates of local pastors. As for church attendance, so confidently said to be increasing, no real statistics exist...
...basic issue at stake on Nov. 8 is not urban renewal--however desirable this is; nor are an illegitimate child and a gasoline station important. The real question is whether Cambridge will support an organization known throughout the nation for its dedication to good local government...