Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personality & Private Life. Married to Mme. La-iad, a prominent feminist and a onetime Senator, Phibun has six grown children, entertains in a sumptuous Bangkok palace. He serves Coca-Cola to guests (a son-in-law is a local Coke concessionaire), and, like Coca-Cola Tycoon James Farley, he has a fondness for green furniture and carpets. Phibun, a devout Buddhist, was born on a Wednesday, and green is the lucky color for Wednesday's children in Thailand. (One of his prewar decrees made dancing compulsory in government offices on Wednesday afternoons.) A canny politician...
...plea for action to halt the recent emigration of Cambridge residents, a member of the City government yesterday called on the University and M.I.T. to initiate improvements on local middle-income housing developments...
...maximum of two instrumental instruction courses would be of great benefit to those concentrators who wish to develop their instrumental talents. The Music Departments should permit such students to take courses at an approved local conservatory, perhaps at the Longy School of Music or the New England Conservatory. It is impossible to claim that music exists only at the pencil point of the composer and not the fingertips of a pianist...
...town fraternity initiates invaded Cambridge last night, but were unable to accomplish their hazing duties because local merchants thought they were part of the local funnybook's Fool Program. "We are sincere," said one pledge, "those Fool boys are harming our institution...
...choruses and lead actors. Amid the furl of colorful costumes the performers move with an case that is a pleasure to watch. The addition of dance and masterful choreography was D'Oyly Carte's great contribution to Gilbert and Sullivan, a contribution often ignored or largely forgotten in local stagings of the duumvirate's works. Adele Hugo, as choreographer, has successfully combined motion with singing, overcoming the minute dimensions of the Winthrop stage in the process...