Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simple set of facts. Memphis urgently needed more power; it had long since outgrown TVA facilities. President Eisenhower was opposed to the continued expansion of TVA, which had already spread far beyond its originally conceived limits. Dixon-Yates was his answer-and it was consistent with his policy of local power development "with the cooperation of the Administration in Washington . . . devoted to the principle of decentralized government and the principle of states' rights...
...West Begins. Even in Texas, where local pride and hospitality are an article of common faith, no one could match Carter's. Once, inviting a group of out-of-towners to visit Fort Worth, Carter wired with typical hospitality: "Carry only what money you need before you get to Texas. You will not be able to spend a dime in the state...
...occasion for all the special effects was the world premiere of Ferde (Grand Canyon Suite} Grofé's latest effort as a musical local-colorist, Hudson River Suite, in Washington, D.C.'s leafy Carter Barren Amphitheater. Its five movements describe 1) The River, with quickened tempo as it surges past Bear Mountain, and broad majesty as it reaches the Palisades; 2) Hendrick Hudson, the intrepid explorer, portrayed in horns and woodwinds and thundering percussion, often wistful because of his tragic end; 3) Rip Van Winkle, a clever description of the Washington Irving tale, in which Rip whistles...
...parliamentary stentors shout the glorious insurrectionary principles of the Revolution, says Luethy. France, in short, has attained "the seventh day of creation" and wants only to keep what it has. Stability, says Luethy, is the Frenchman's great desire-stability that preserves all the innumerable positions of petty local privilege first won as a rule from the all-compassing state, stability that permits the anarchic individualism by which "everyone is allowed his own destiny, and is allowed, to follow it to the end; no man's hand will be raised to stop...
Sport of Kings. In Washington, B.C., after he was expelled from a local ping-pong club, Attorney Charles S. Geier sued for $3,000 damages, explained in court that the expulsion had damaged him "emotionally, physically, socially, financially and professionally...