Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hopes will capture a majority of the National Assembly's 91 seats. Sihanouk, whose portrait is the party's symbol, stands for a strengthened parliamentary monarchy for the central government at Pnompenh and "democracy at a level the people can understand," i.e., provincial assemblies to run local affairs and to check up on delegates to Pnompenh...
...Louisville, the local press found a modest hero who for six months had seemed to be no more to his neighbors than just another fellow with five kids. Charles Edward ("Commando") Kelly, who killed 40 Germans in World War II and won the Congressional Medal of Honor, explained: "I just don't go around telling people who I am." The $40,000 he earned from magazine, book and movie rights for his wartime story has all been spent. He now makes $60 to $100 a week driving a power roller over blacktop being laid at a nearby airport...
...This Is Very It." North Adams is proud to have him back. More than 200 kids met him at the airport when he arrived to set up his headquarters at the Kenwood Camp for children. A local bartender is peddling a concoction known as an "Archie Moore Knockout Cocktail...
...education." With that simple announcement in his 1954 budget message, Dwight Eisenhower set off a chain of events that even he might not have anticipated. By last week every state in the union, as well as Hawaii and Alaska, had either held, or was planning to hold, scores of local meetings in preparation for the big White House conference next Nov. 28. Special committees have made surveys on everything from the rise of enrollments to the shortage of teachers; thousands of citizens and educators were making a common effort, as never before, to solve the problems of the public schools...
...gifted child. Today the state has three committees working on the problem. Some schools now offer advanced courses to bright pupils; one school is experimenting with giving eighth graders ninth-grade work; Darien has a program by which talented science students can work in the laboratories of local industrial chemists...