Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faure also grimly told the Assembly that the complicity of local police in counterterrorist crimes in Morocco has been "clearly established,"" that four policemen, including a brigadier police chief, have been arrested, and "we are in the presence of a complete counterterrorist organization, to which dozens of outrages can be attributed." In Casablanca, suspects were hustled to police headquarters with paper bags over their heads to conceal their identities. Members of the gang had reportedly confessed to participating in 80 "incidents," including the burning of an Arab market, the murder of several Arab farmers, and bomb attacks on local Frenchmen...
...Grande, Venezuela is the only country where well-paid Europeans perform manual labor. Hard-working Italians, Spaniards and Portuguese dig ditches, pour concrete, lay bricks, hammer nails. The immigrants seldom fool around on the job; when it rains, they don slickers and keep working. There is some local resentment of the newcomers' all-work-and-no-play attitude, and radio programs carry plenty of anti-immigrant jokes, but government officials are well aware that Venezuela has the immigrants to thank whenever a new building, a new road or a new airfield is completed on schedule...
...Before coming to Cold Spring, Miss Ella May Holbrock, 77, found that she was far from satisfied with just keeping house for her niece. Now, with the new interests she has discovered, she intends to return to Watertown, N.Y., join a local dramatic society and put some zip in the Senior Citizens Club. "In an old-age group like that," says she, "there are too many who just want to sit around and play pedro...
...thousands more huzzahed. At home on East Street, he riffled through a 2-ft.-high stack of telegrams. Then, swamped by offers for endorsements, interviews and public appearances, he telephoned Fred Corcoran, professional business manager for professional athletes, became a Corcoran client. Later in the day the local Ford dealer dropped around to insist that Jack try out a Thunderbird, al though he already owns a 1955 Buick and an aging Chevrolet. Finally, at 10 p.m. - after two full days of transcontinental pandemonium, highlighted by a 5-minute chat with President Eisenhower in San Francisco, Jack Fleck turned into...
Last week Jack, still red-hot, deadly on the greens, fired a sizzling 68 on a local par-73 course. He clearly regarded himself as the happiest man alive. In a head full of dazzling prospects, he also found room for a little philosophy. Said he: "I like the word self-composure. Golf is a feeling-80% of it is in your mind. Composure is the one thing I ever tried to copy from Ben Hogan...