Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is one thing that sentimental Austrians like even better than coffee topped with whipped cream, it is an emperor. Last week, for the first time in years, a real emperor dropped in on Vienna, and the city was plunged into a swivet of what local newspapers called Kaiser-fieber (emperor fever). The real emperor: His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie, King of Kings, Conquering Lion of Judah...
...income-tax arrears last year, popped up in the revenuer's office in Buffalo. Unhappy topic of discussion: $40,987 which the Government claims she still owes on her past income from royalties and a partnership. Taylor collapsed on the revenuer's floor. Whisked off to a local hospital, she was pronounced in "good" shape at week...
...nation tap its increasing wealth for more public schools? The Citizens Commission takes no sides: either state or federal revenues "can provide the increase in the amounts required to educate 48 million children in 1965. The problem is to select the best [combination] to meet education requirements . . . at the local level without federal control...
Teacher Black's letter brought unexpected results: he was summarily fired by the local school board. Last week, at a hearing on the decision, the board said it was not interested in the truth or falsity of the letter, only whether or not he had written it. Meanwhile, the pressure was too much for Superintendent Miller: he resigned. But the New Mexican was far from satisfied. It planned to carry on its battle, hoped to persuade incoming Governor John F. Simms Jr. to start a state investigation of the scandal...
...state controls, which are far more restrictive than the federal sys tem, are a patchwork of politics and protection for local milk producers. Alabama, for example, prohibits distributors from increasing out-of-state milk purchases except during a severe shortage, fixes the grocery price of milk 1?higher than the home-delivered price, even though it usually costs nearly 3? a quart less to sell through a grocery. Thus milk is 26? a quart in Birmingham, but in Chattanooga, a freely competitive market about four hours away by truck, milk is only 16? a quart. Wisconsin, because of highly efficient...