Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could deny that Claverly is now more appealing than it was several years ago as a local Siberia. Fortunately, the University has wiped away this stigma by filling Claverly with good tutors and high-ranking students. But even the fact that some of these students choose to remain in Claverly after the sophomore year can not hide the disadvantages of physical separation from the Houses. Despite several arrangements for breakfast at nearby Adams and Lowell, Eliot and Winthrop men must still make early morning treks to the river, and for other meals, all Clverly residents must go to their...
...major extension of insurance to cover long-term illnesses now excluded was approved at a joint Chicago meeting of Blue Cross (hospitalization) and Blue Shield (medical care) representatives. By year's end, most of the autonomous local plans are expected to offer combination policies (for extra premiums of about $1 a month for an individual, $2 to $3 for a family) to provide up to two years of care for long-lasting disorders now excluded, e.g., mental illness, tuberculosis, incurable cancer, alcoholism. Most plans now exclude these illnesses, and limit protection to about 70 days' care for acute...
...repeal the Miller-Tydings law, which exempts price-fixers of name-brand products from antitrust action, and the McGuire Act of 1952, which makes a minimum-price agreement signed by one retailer with a manufacturer binding on all retailers in a state. Said the committee: "As a result of local enabling and federal exemptive legislation, resale price-fixing, otherwise a clear antitrust violation, is today lawful in most American states...
BIGGEST ATOMIC POWER plant will be built near Chicago by General Electric for operation in a few years. Chicago's Commonwealth Edison Co. will finance and run the plant, is now working out details with the Atomic Energy Commission, G.E. and local utility companies...
...sudden fame and the hope of fortune, Dan fancies up his place and reopens it as the "Lost Dutchman." Feature writers, artists and slumming socialites flock in; they make even more of Dan, a rare, pure specimen of pre-Fire, South-of-Market Irishman, than of his Rembrandt. But local bluenoses denounce Dan and all his works and ways. After a sensational hearing in which his thirstiest patron blows the bluenosiest citizen right out of the water, Dan is stripped of his liquor license. The rest of the story tells how Dan is rescued from dry destruction and winds...