Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...murderer" and victim embraced, swore everlasting friendship, went arm in arm to see the warden. José told the astounded official what had happened, explained that a band of sugar workers had found him rifling the pockets of his unconscious victim and presumed Abdias dead. Turned over to local police and shunted from one backwoods station house to another, José, too, had thought the man dead, and had finally been convicted on the testimony of the sugar workers and his own confession despite the absence of a corpse. "This is highly irregular," murmured the warden, but he sent...
Last week Casmir Andrews, 40, walked briskly from a red jeep station wagon into a modernistic new building in downtown Toledo: the Diagnostic Clinic of the Willys Unit. Local 12, United Auto Workers. So far as Andrews knew, there was nothing wrong with him. That was the point. He was going in for a thorough physical checkup, an exhaustive 1½-hour going over by doctors, with half a dozen or more lab tests to follow. At going rates for Toledo doctors' and medical labs, this would cost anywhere from $150 to $200. Shop Steward Andrews...
...Deputy Mayor Henry Epstein of New York City tossed a group of local educators two questions for which no one seemed to have any answers. "How is it," he asked, "that the same youngsters who flunk shop courses are able to 'soup up' old jalopies with hand-tooled carburetors? And why are boys failures at making book ends but successes in crafting zip guns out of scrap...
Nobody really expected that it would come to that, especially since the Roman Catholic Church does not recognize the validity of Anglican orders. In any case, intercommunion at present allows members of the Church of South India only limited privileges and local bishops may use their discretion in granting even these. The question of full intercommunion is not expected to become a serious question for about two decades...
...film Underwater! In the last two months more than half a million mambo records have been sold, and Japanese recording companies have been working overtime to meet the mamboom. Top hit is still Cherry Pink, followed closely by Skokiaan Mambo and Cerezo Rosa (a different arrangement of Cherry Pink). Local mambo composers are doing their best to catch...