Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hill agreed with Commissioner Brownell that national expansion of the plan is entirely possible, "though it would have to be varied to suit local circumstances...
...studying the effects of quack cures, Dr. Horton and his colleagues got to know the local quacks themselves. One was a prosperous hill-country dairy farmer, another a housewife active in church work. A third was a mountain farmer who, Horton reported, could "quote more Bible than any man I ever saw . . . We told him he didn't know what a cancer was, and he didn't." When told that he had cancer himself, the mountain healer went to Duke for treatment...
...should the medical profession approach quacks? "We have a duty," says Horton, "to examine and study each new cancer-cure proposal, no matter how unreasonable it may seem." Nevertheless, Dr. Horton urges strong action: doctors everywhere should seek stiff local laws and penalties against "premeditated quackery," report quacks to state medical examiners for investigation...
...local press promptly named the statue "The Groping Boy." Snapped Roy Elkins, managing editor of the Bristol Virginia-Tennnessean: "The deer looks half-starved and the boy is in even worse shape." To most Bristol citizens the work was "idiotic," "ridiculous" and "a monstrosity." Last fortnight the city council voted to pay $2,600 for the artist's expenses, and canceled the contract...
...consul, Eric Shipton, and his No. 1 houseboy, a "hard nut" of a Sherpa named Tenzing Norkey,* fed him well and mapped out his route through the Himalayas to Kashmir. Alone now, half starving and delirious, Willie stumbled over the 16,000-ft. passes to be welcorned by a local potentate. A Norwegian freighter, which called at Singapore as Japan's first bombs fell on Dec. 7, 1941, finally brought Willie to Canada, where he learned the comparatively humdrum business of handling fighter planes...