Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Young & Gay. The activities of the Y.M.C.A. movement are almost as diverse as its 4,242,819 world members. It employs 5,704 full-time professional secretaries (the term for Y.M.C.A. local administrative officers), operates 8,360 headquarters buildings, 247 armed services centers, 186 industrial workers' centers, 89 refugee camp associations, 252 holiday hostels, 72 summer camps, and scores of schools and colleges. In almost every corner of the world people are familiar with its escutcheon, a red triangle whose sides symbolize the association's three concerns: spirit, mind and body...
...months ago, TVmen were quick to recall, that CBS was denying stoutly that it would try to compete in kind with NBC's loudly publicized Spectaculars. This fall CBS will flood the TV screen with at least ten 90-minute Spectacular-type shows. Coming soon (check your local newspaper for time and station): Fort Knox or Bust...
...investigator was none other than Warwick's Mayor George Tibbits. A | tweedy man of 51 with a taste for musty documents and authentic Chippendale. Tibbits first started poking into Elihu's past when a local firm of solicitors that once handled the affairs of some Yale descendants began clearing out their files. Some of the firm's papers were more than 600 years old, and Amateur Historian Tibbits asked permission to examine them at home. Some of the boola-boola he has since discovered...
Such swift skill is the product of long practice. As a ten-year-old choir boy in the tiny Basque town of Saint-Palais, Jean Urruty was already a promising pelotari. Sunday mornings, after Mass, his priest would take him to the local court for an hour-long workout at main nue. At 14, he quit school to become a carpenter's apprentice, but his heart was still at the fronton. French Tennis Champion Jean ("The Bounding Basque") Borotra, a fine pelotari himself, took the youngster under his wing, brought him to Paris and taught him tennis. Urruty...
Gourmet. In Hardwick, Vt., where he was arrested and fined $18.50 for assault, Lorenzo Brochu, 42, admitted he entered a local diner, spotted Joseph Bellavance, plucked him out of his chair, flung him into the street while roaring: "I wouldn't eat in the same place with that...