Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private ventures. In any case, added the State Department, "the U.S. is at a loss to understand [why] the Hungarian government apparently finds repugnant the points made in the leaflets: that the Hungarian government could improve the conditions of the Hungarian people by vesting real authority in popularly chosen local councils; enforcing the practice of constitutional guarantees of free speech and free assembly; assuring equality before the law; guaranteeing the right of the working peasant to a just share of the fruits of his labor; respecting trade unions; establishing in practice free education and the constitutional rights of freedom...
...paid another visit, and left behind in the church tower the biggest and handsomest clock the villagers had ever seen. Last summer, after selling his business, Mike went back to pay still another visit to Pyrgi. Once again he opened his purse and his heart, to spruce up the local schoolhouse and the village square...
...C.I.O. and the A.F.L., the San Francisco Board of Education took highhanded revenge on teachers who opposed the reappointment of one board member last fall. By a vote of 5 to 1, the board passed a resolution forbidding any teacher to work for or against any candidate for any local office. Protested a C.T.A. official: "This is a basic issue with far more than local import. Now it's local candidates The next thing we know it could be extended to a campaign for the governorship. The next logical step would involve a presidential campaign." ¶ The Fund...
...burst at last the giant pod of cinema talent in Southern California. Able, creative people-producers, directors, actors, cameramen-were scattered to the four winds. Some drifted into television, but quite a few went off to the film capitals of Europe, where they stirred new life in the local talent...
...Director-Producer Joe (The Barefoot Contessa) Mankiewicz, chooses as his hero-victim an 18-year-old boy of Mexican descent who lives in a Southern California town that draws its color line tight as a noose. Straying from "Mex Town," Angel Chavez makes his first fumbling pass at a local girl on a restricted stretch of San Juno's beach one night, and she drops dead of a rheumatic heart. A brassy, card-carrying lawyer named Barney Castle helps save the boy from a lynch mob and takes him on as a client, but only for the Commie purpose...