Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bringing the film version of Graham Greene's novel to New England for the first time, the Brattle has done local moviegoers a considerable favor. Although Leslie Storm's adaptation of the book does not provide high excitement and seems conscientiously to shun dramatic effect, it results in a picture that is severely honest and thought-provoking. The care with which director George More O'Ferrall and his cast have avoided any trace of trace of sentimentality helps convey to the screen the deeply depressing quality of Greene's novel...
...mutual aid between communities. Several U.S. cities have had major "disaster" workouts (Chicago in 1952 assumed 100,000 casualties, 20,000 dead), but have counted on their own medical facilities. In the Beaumont test, the presumption was that a refinery blast had caused 250 casualties* and knocked out local medical aid. It was up to Houston, 90 miles away, to give succor...
Political Scents. In Brewton, Ala., the Brewton Standard polled its readers to find out whether they favored the proposed construction of a local paper mill, announced that 3,936 had voted "to smell," only eleven "not to smell...
...course the student does not just suffer for this whole period. He either pulls the tooth out himself (thereby perhaps landing in the Infirmary instead of the Dental Clinic), or goes to one of the local private dentists whom the Clinic obligingly recommends. Here he pays considerably more than the specially-reduced $3 fee to which he is entitled at the Clinic...
...leave some time open each day for only the more serious cases, and if necessary, might refer to outside dentists some of the students with routine problems. This solution would not be so satisfactory as universal false teeth, but it might prevent some unnecessary gnashing and gnawing in the local area...