Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, as Shawnee got ready to file its petition for a grand jury to investigate Sheriff Harrington's regime, the local county attorney started action to challenge the sheriff's right to hold office. He also asked Oklahoma Governor Raymond Gary to help clean up bootlegging and gambling in Shawnee, and the FBI began an investigation to see if Reporter Bradshaw's beating was a violation of federal civil rights laws. As a result of its belated expose, the News-Star had also learned a lesson: the campaign to clean up Shawnee should not have waited...
...first arrived on Beale Street. Ten years later, Handy and his band were hired to play at political rallies for a young candidate for mayor. As an innovation, Handy wrote a syncopated campaign song, Mister Crump (don't 'low no easy riders here), which became a local sensation. Later, more lyrics were added, the title was changed to Memphis Blues, and the song became an international hit. Before he left Memphis for New York City in 1917, Handy wrote Beale Street Blues, which immortalized the street...
...High in the Himalayas above the Nepal-Sikkim border, members of an expedition led by Britain's Dr. Charles Evans (a veteran of the Hunt-Hillary climb) remembered their manners and halted a few feet from the summit (28,146 ft.) of Mt. Kanchenjunga to avoid offending local gods. Even so, they earned credit for conquering the world's third highest peak (after Everest, 29,028 ft., and Godwin Austen or K2, 28,250 ft.), the highest mountain until then unclimbed...
GIANT COKES, tried out in test markets since last year (TIME, Oct. 11), will soon be sold nationally. So far, some 200 local Coca-Cola bottlers have asked permission to put out either "king-size" (10-to-12-oz.) or "family-size" (26-oz.) bottles, and the parent company has given them the green light...
Exams were over, and the local tutoring schools were counting up their receipts after the long ordeal. The manager of one, the College Tutoring Bureau, estimated that he had sold 1100 notes since the start of Christmas vacation. The CRIMSON wrote that "when asked if he had been able to estimate the results of his labors, the manager claimed that he had been responsible for probably two or three hundred C's. 'For,' he explained, 'one student buys, notes but four read them...