Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Local Pride & the Lions...
About a third of our editors got jobs after their schooling as copy boys, office boys, reporters on their local newspapers or small magazines. One began as copyreader for the Panama American in Panama City, Panama. Another began his training on the Pierce County Press in Rugby, N.Dak. And another broke in on the Sand Mountain Banner in Albertville...
Nobody explained this sound political logic to the new Democratic national chairman, Paul Butler. At a press conference, after the New Orleans meeting, Butler endorsed a personal attack on Ike attributed by a local newspaper to House Democratic Leader Sam Rayburn. Butler declared that Ike had demonstrated "his incapacity to lead the American people . . . His military background does not qualify Eisenhower as a political leader." If Butler had asked any of the reporters, he would have learned that Rayburn had vehemently denied any attack...
Coastal radar runs from Vancouver to San Diego on the Pacific, from Labrador to Savannah on the Atlantic. Navy radar picket ships patrol offshore for added warning. Spot local radar nets have been built around critical targets-SAC bases, nuclear weapons centers and great cities. Mostly, the radar line is string-thin. Sometimes stations are closed for repairs. Usually, the radars are beamed high for maximum range, leaving gaps for low-level attack...
With his fox terrier Sweikof, Grutzius camped out in a circus wagon, sleeping on the floor (for all the furniture had been sold), scrounging food from local citizens who themselves were too poor to spare much. In the winter, the dwarf kept warm by getting drunk on harsh red wine, some of which he shared with Sweikof, and by burning dried grapevines in his stove...