Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which has been pretty much out of the news since Lot's Wife turned into a pillar of salt and the whole sinful citizenry got its comeuppance (Genesis 19), was back in the limelight. Tel Aviv's Chamber Theater Company arrived in Sodom to perform for the local miners and settlers-among them, Israel's former Premier David Ben Gurion, now a sheep farmer. On a stage set up near the Dead Sea, 1,200 ft. below sea level, the actors put on a new play, Casablan, dealing with the social and psychological integration of the country...
...editor of Foreign Affairs magazine, Hamilton Fish Armstrong, a nonpartisan man who is usually preoccupied with global concerns, sent a tut-tutting letter to the New York Times, taking the Republicans to task on a local issue: "I refer to an unfulfilled pledge made by the Republican Party in 1952 [for] 'a more efficient and frequent mail delivery service.' . . . My [Manhattan] office receives only one mail delivery a day. There is no large city in any other leading nation of the world-and I speak advisedly-where sucb a lamentable condition exists...
...iron lung's mirror was familiar to millions in newspapers and newsreels. His father spent an estimated $1,000,000 on the medical fight to keep him breathing. Fred graduated from Notre Dame in 1932, went to work in his wealthy father's business, the Local Loan Co. of Chicago. Four years later, in China on a trip around the world, he contracted bulbar poliomyelitis...
...distinct from local anesthesia, which is impractical for major chest surgery...
...monopoly newspaper is really bad, then it won't last long as a monopoly. New competition by abler and more socially minded newspapermen will displace and supersede it." Some of the best papers in the U.S., says he, have no competition in their morning or evening local field, e.g., St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Milwaukee Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, Washington Post, Miami Herald...