Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along the way they learned to live a life of simple utility. Nixon would shave his heavy, black beard close in the morning with a safety razor, then would slick up with his electric razor (if local voltage permitted) before dinner. Pat found it easiest to wash out her own nylons at overnight stops...
Complex Briefing. At every stop, Nixon delighted his hosts by talking knowledgeably off the cuff about local problems. His knowledge was no accident. Aboard the plane he paid close attention to the good advice of Assistant Secretary of State Henry Holland (who doubled as chief translator). At each stop, the ranking State Department careerman from the country next on the list would join the party to bring the latest word on the situation ahead. Not once, in addressing a total of some 70,000 people and shaking 22,500 hands, did Nixon slip seriously...
...names of 294 businessmen; 81 Administration officials; 51 editors, publishers and writers; 30 educators; 23 Republican Party leaders; 18 scientists, artists and sportsmen; 16 military friends; ten heads of foundations or charities; nine farmers and farm leaders; eight union leaders; six church leaders; five relatives, and four state and local officials. While some observers have concluded that the White House stag dinner is a potent political instrument, Hagerty said: "Personal guests of the President of the U.S. are in no way connected with the Government...
...Argentina's political vocabulary "people's organizations" means the Perón-manipulated General Labor Confederation (C.G.T.) and the various Perónista associations of businessmen, professional men and students. In some cities and provinces, "people's organizations" meddle in government affairs, and local authorities sometimes resist the meddling. At Perón's closed-door meeting with provincial governors last month, spokesmen for the Perónista associations rapped several provincial officials for failing to pay "people's organizations" due heed. Aware that more than three provincial governments took verbal stonings at the meeting...
...proprietress and the bus driver (Elaine Stritch and Patrick McVey), records the spoutings, slitherings and slumbers of a drunken professor (Anthony Ross). There is also the wide-eyed high-school girl who finds the professor wonderful, there is an unrambunctious cowboy with a guitar, and there is a local sheriff who perhaps stands for law and order in the world as well as on Main Street. In a beautifully paced and harmonized production, every part is well played, and Kim Stanley plays the nightclub singer superbly...