Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scene 2. On Cyprus, the London failure fanned mounting tension into mobbish terrorizing. The spiritual leader of Greek Orthodox Cypriots and the eminence grise of the enosis movement, 42-year-old Archbishop Myriarthefs Makarios, while renouncing violence, busily heightened the enosis fever both on Cyprus and the Greek mainland. Local British security officers recommended his deportation but London wisely decided to leave the influential archbishop alone. But more Royal Marine Commandos were sent to the island from Malta to disperse demonstrators, and guard against explosions. Still violence increased. Last week the British Institute at Nicosia was sacked by a shouting...
Then she streaked off over the Atlantic as if she had seen a ghost. The apprehensive Northeast states got only drops of local rain and fitful puffs of wind...
Spokane-born Kenneth Callahan came to his peculiarly regional style the long way around. At 16 he was a good enough realist to have a watercolor of the Seattle waterfront hung in a major exhibition. In 1926 he gave up both local notoriety and his studies at the University of Washington to go to San Francisco, where, between part-time jobs as grease monkey, bank clerk and restaurant waiter, he worked on his style ("There was nobody there to tell me I was wonderful"). Back in Seattle he tried commercial art. (Says his wife: "Kenneth's heart just wasn...
...Carnation' or the k out of 'Milk.' ") On the proceeds of the sale of five local-color paintings he went off to Mexico, fell in love with the work of Orozco, Rivera and Tamayo ("There was no talk of what could sell...
Three Crimson skippers--Commodore A. C. Langworthy, Fred Hoppin, and Tommy Townsend--will seek their fifth straight Big Three Championship from Princeton and Yale in a nine boat race. Home waters and greater familiarity with the Tech dingies give the local sailors the edge...