Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning last fortnight, all these people marched out past their tumbledown cemetery to the green grass Pedro Juan Caballero airstrip. Soon, two silvery Douglas transports circled and landed, bringing Paraguayan President Alfredo Stroessner, U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay Arthur Ageton and other local and foreign dignitaries. Forward to greet them stepped Clarence Earl Johnson, a 6-ft, 200-lb. Texan in a white Stetson, faded blue jeans with pearl buttons, and cowhide boots...
Across the U.S. last week, music lovers were pulling themselves away from their after-supper TV and their hi-fi sets. Into private cars and public buses they loaded blankets, cushions and bottles of anti-bug lotions, and rode off to the local stadiums and amphitheaters. At about twilight, they plumped by the thousands on damp grass, slatted benches or cold concrete, and spent the evening straining to catch the sounds of distant fiddling, blowing or singing. In short, the U.S. outdoor music season was under...
...fine artists, e.g., soloists from the Leningrad ballet, violinists, singers, pianists, even chess players, and once sent Composer Aram (Sabre Dance) Khachaturian to conduct Iceland's national symphony. What makes Russian visits even more effective is the Russian practice of traveling to outlying communities to make music with local musicians...
...Fils de Basile Obegi of Syria placed an order with a New York export house for 100 four-wheel-drive jeeps (which cannot legally be exported to Iron Curtain countries). The jeeps' purported destination was Beirut, where a merchant named Jean Maghamez supposedly wanted them for local farmers. Willys-Overland Export Corp. of Toledo cabled its Syrian dealer, Levant Motors, to investigate the $150,000 order. Levant Motors discovered that Consignee Ma-ghamez was just a front man, and replied that it suspected Les Fils de Basile Obegi was planning to reexport the jeeps to Rumania. The auto firm...
...Neighborhood. In Salt Lake City, after years of running newspaper advertisements. Thomas J. and Frank Wiley finally persuaded a Denver foundling home to tell them the adopted name of their long-lost brother, looked in their local directory, found that brother Hugh Bernecker, a substitute schoolteacher, had lived within 40 miles of them for 15 years and had once taught at a school attended by Frank's children...