Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indian Head Bonanza. In 1950 Fred decided to buy a Geiger counter. For months he worked overtime at his job as janitor of the local high school in order to accumulate the necessary $100. The day he brought his counter home, he poked it around his backyard rock pile. Immediately, the Geiger counter began to jitter excitedly, but when Fred located the radioactive rock and dug it out, he could not remember where he had found it. For three months he retraced his steps through the hills until at last, on a Sunday afternoon, he discovered the spot where...
...Kenya Colony's leading political figure, big, bluff Michael Blundell, told Britain's Colonial Office in London last week that the Mau Mau have been losing ground ever since last April when Britain gave Kenya's blacks a bigger voice in local government. Loyal Kikuyu, bravely standing out against the terrorists in their tribe, have done much to turn the tide. Mau Mau are now surrendering to local authorities at the rate of 25 a week as opposed to a scanty two a week, six months ago. The 6,000-odd Mau Mau gangsters still at large...
While still in his teens, Café Filho began contributing angry, something-must-be-done articles on the plight of the poor to local newspapers. At 22 he started a shoestring paper of his own, O Jornál do Norte. Other papers in northeast Brazil were soon reprinting his fire-eating denunciations of corruption. One day a Natal politician whom he had brickbatted came in and laid a large banknote on his desk; Cafe Filho scornfully touched a match to the bill, used it to light a cigarette. At 27 Café Filho ran for the federal Chamber...
Franco & Joe. The Register's Denver office, where Father Smith works in shirtsleeves and Roman collar, is a kind of Holy See of U.S. Catholic journalism. Local editors from all over the U.S. send in news, which Father Smith and his staff of 26 laymen and five priests edit...
...today's college football has been left a strange legacy. It has been set aside from the rest of the athletic program by an almost fanatic following on the part of undergraduates, alumni, and local fans. This difference is evidenced numerically by the 40,000 people who watched the Yale game, and the 10,000 who could not get tickets. Saturday's front pages are another indication--both the Boston and undergraduate papers treat the games with headlines equalled only by the resignation of a college president. Football, the game played between undergraduates has been caught up and dominated...