Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serious danger of separation from the College. Students on probation may neither hold scholarships, compete for prizes, or represent the University. The measure is a just and effective instrument when used to correct academic or social misdemeanor. But when it is unexpectedly employed to prevent something that hundreds of local homeowners do in front of their houses every night--an act that the University has, in practice, permitted for years--probation is degraded to a position slightly higher than a reprimand for jay-walking...
...been learned that postal authorities have sometimes held up delivery of publications mailed to the Center, because of misunderstandings. Often, not knowing if it was "legal" to send the mail through, local postmasters have just stored the publications...
Strongman's Eye. Perón reached far afield for C.G.E. Boss Gelbard, who had caught the strongman's eye by organizing a local businessmen's association (pro-Perón) in the city of Rosario in 1950. Last week Gelbard moved into a glittering new office, decorated with an enormous portrait of Perón, in a C.G.E.-owned seven-story building near the stock exchange. Nearly every sizable business in the country belongs to the C.G.E., and from each member-firm Gelbard extracts an initiation fee of .1% of capital investment, plus dues equal...
...American-Louisiana Pipe Line Co., Tennessee Gas Transmission Co. and Texas-Illinois Gas Co. have either slowed down their expansion or postponed plans for new pipelines since many of the big producers refuse to sign long-term contracts. In Texas, more and more producers are talking of selling to local markets exclusively to dodge federal controls, use their gas in Texas towns and the state's burgeoning petrochemical industry...
American Plan. In Harrisburg, Pa., Legislator Wilbur R. Hamilton introduced a bill authorizing local lockups to charge prisoners $2.50 a day for cell...