Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Local Gain. Until World War II, Sicily contributed far more to Italy than Italy ever gave back. "They grow fat up north with our money," is an old Sicilian com plaint. But in its postwar autonomy, Res tivo and his colleagues are able to claim, Sicily has got 8,500 new schoolrooms, 3,026 kilometers of sorely needed new roads, 131,000 rooms of new housing, a new water system for 247 communities. Total investment by Rome and the regional government in eight years: about $1.5 billion. Tourist business is booming (helped among other things by the visit to ancient...
Little Laborers. At first, Teacher Janvier had wanted to be a writer. Though she could never see a blackboard, she managed to get through Newcomb College and to take an M.A. in English at Tulane. Then a friend offered her a job as a local factory inspector in charge of investigating child laborers to see if they were of legal age to work. "It was amazing," she recalls, "how people would try to change the records so that their children could go to work before they were 14. But even those who were 14 were pitiful little things who should...
Last week the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (see below) voted to ordain women, but left the final decision on the matter up to the local presbyteries. Moreover, the cause of the distaff dominae got a new boost from Britain. The Rev. Elsie Chamberlain, 45, tall, dark and handsome Congregationalist minister, was unanimously elected chairman of the Congregational Union - top job in British Congregationalism...
...chewing-gum wrappers like a blade of grass between slabs of city concrete. Eddie Slocum and Pamela Oldenburg are waiflike 20-year-olds who meet in the subway. Eddie is a college student who shares a Greenwich Village walk-up with a couple of buddies and goes through a local education factory as mechanically as if he were an IBM card being punched for semester credits. Nicknamed "The Groper," Eddie has a case of moral acne, and itches with integrity in a world he thinks the phonies have defiled. Pam, too, is alone and afraid, caroming between stuffy upper-East...
...expedient nature of the Court's decision does not hide what "adjustment of local problems" really means. Segregation, before the original decision a year ago, was a matter of taste. One either believed in it or not, and practiced it or not within the limits of local police regulations. It is still a matter of taste, and one may still believe in it, but its practice in public schools, according to any interpretation of the Supreme Court ruling, is illegal. When apologists talk about "local problems" they are now speaking about an unwillingness to obey...