Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hostilities." After a routine tirade charging that the real cause of trouble was "the gross interference of the U.S. in the internal affairs of China," Molotov said he would consider it. (Molotov was more expansive later when visiting Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr. asked if there might be a local cease-fire to permit the bloodless evacuation of the Tachens. "If Chiang Kai-shek should desire to withdraw his forces from any islands, hardly anyone would try to prevent him from doing so," said Molotov dryly...
More significant has been his adroit manipulation of party jobs. He has named new secretaries to the Communist Parties of Russia, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Moldavia, Georgia and Azerbaizhan. He appears in Leningrad and the next day the first and second secretaries of the local party organization are ousted. He criticizes cotton growing in Uzbekistan, and Uzbekistan Premier Usman Yusupov is fired. In Moscow he launches an "anti-bureaucracy" drive, ostensibly to divert thousands of Moscow functionaries (i.e., minor party members) into more "useful employment in production." but no doubt to make way for Khrushchev...
...tour as the villainous Captain Queeg with the road company of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, Actor Paul Douglas, currently pictured in magazine ads as a genial beer guzzler, hit the town of Greensboro, N.C. and made some ungenial, damyankee noises. Caught either off guard (according to a local reporter) or off record (according to Douglas), the actor waded Queegishly into a question about how he liked Dixie, snapped a curt "It stinks." After the aghast newsman commented that the reply would make interesting reading, Douglas plowed onward: "A land of sowbelly and segregation-it stinks." By the time...
...From Iceland to the heart of the Congo, the limber-legged Negro demonstrated the smooth style and strenuous training techniques that have won him two Olympic gold medals (at 800 meters in 1948 and 1952) and helped him set ten middle-distance marks. * Everywhere, he managed to give local runners a quick course of expert coaching, lead them through exhausting calisthenics and still had strength enough to run the legs off the fastest trackmen around. Seldom has the U.S. State Department sponsored so popular an ambassador...
Land of Champs. Ambassador Whitfield stayed at Nairobi's best hotel (the New Stanley), to the wonder of the local "non-Europeans." Only in Northern Rhodesia was there any discrimination against him: in Lusaka jittery officials did not dare put him up at the capital's one decent hotel, found him a room with a local schoolmaster. Unruffled, Whitfield later ran through six shows. No one seemed to mind sharing the track with the Olympic champion. Would-be athletes flocked to run with Whitfield, to ask questions and to hear his advice. He usually talked about the need...