Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recently, the Brandy Kingship of Noordgesig, a Colored (mixed blood) community near Johannesburg, fell open when the local champion was killed in a motor accident. After priming themselves with a couple of fingers of brandy apiece, two new contenders stepped up to compete for his crown. Each deposited ?2 on a table as a sign of good faith, then, at a signal from the local referees, they went to work. At the end of 45 minutes, Contender Eric Forster was well out in front, with a full quart of brandy inside him. He groped unsteadily to his feet, demanded recognition...
...decision to withdraw from Austria and her new-found friendship for the unforgetting Tito. In their apparent anxiety to please the West, is it possible that the Russians will go as far as to ring a few changes in the bureaucratic hierarchies of the satellite states? After Geneva, the local bosses felt a little better: the West had not pressed its demands for liberation, and Khrushchev & Co. had stood their ground. Last week, the word from Moscow was that the satellite bosses were safe-for the time being...
...more carefully respected by his neighbors in the four Indian provinces south of New Delhi than the proud Thakore clansman, Man Singh. Great maharajas and rich, land-owning zamindars came by the score to attend the wedding feast he gave his grandson. Local villagers expressed their admiration for him in reverently hushed voices. Even a government committee set up to examine his affairs in 1952 declared that Man Singh was a man "of no private vices." Nonetheless, the government of Madhya Bharat province could not overlook a police file which recounted in more than one ton of official documents...
...Park Forest, a suburb south of Chicago which is growing so rapidly that even local mothers call it "Fertile Acres," not even the oldtimers (residents of four years or more) could remember so bitter a fuss. It began simply as an earnest effort to cope with the town's overcrowded schools. But by last week Park Forest was hard aboil with scalding controversy of an entirely different sort. The cause, as the suburb's Reporter put it, was that "the fury of a woman scorned can't hold a candle to the heat generated by a parent...
Doorly built the World-Herald by watching the paper's news coverage as closely as he watched its finances. To enforce brevity and variety, he ordered an "Item Count" every day, totting up the number of stories in each news category (i.e., local news, society, international, etc.), made the staff produce as many as 450 separate news stories a day. If a close personal friend or a big advertiser got in the way of one of the paper's local crusades, Doorly had no compunction about running him over. When he decided in 1939 that the New York...