Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Disagreement in Moscow. In 32 years of diplomacy at home and abroad, Henderson's career has been consistently distinguished. In Riga, Latvia, long before the U.S. recognized Soviet Russia, he found a convenient listening post for tapping the Communist line (he also married a local girl). For years thereafter, he pursued the moves of international Communism across Central Europe with the astuteness of an Eric Ambler detective...
...tradition remains, and "Eastern finance" is still a repugnant term. The New Deal was credited with power and irrigation, the colossus of Grand Coulee bringing alive Hanford's atomic energy plant, mushrooming cities, drawing industry and providing water for empty land. Today, in an empire lacking private local capital to meet the increasing dreams of manifest destiny, federal help still looms large, and U.S.-financed works find vigorous support even from otherwise conservative Republicans. Item: for 35 years, following the same trail over which the Lewis and Clark Expedition first entered the country in 1805, Idaho has tried...
...month. The galleries have discovered that more than 15% of all customers decide to buy what they have rented (galleries deduct the paid rental from the purchase price). Result: the art rental idea has taken hold both of commercial galleries and of museums interested in helping local artists, and is now sweeping the country. New York City, Buffalo, Minneapolis, Houston, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara all boast rental services, and they are by no means all. Last fortnight Chicago's Art Institute joined the parade; last week the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center did the same...
...crossroads town of Petrieville, Mich., the second son of a wholesale-produce man. (Curtice's older brother, LeRoy, has been an hourly-paid paint-and-metal inspector at G.M.'s Fisher Body plant since 1936.) After graduating from high school, Curtice worked for a year in a local woolen mill, saved up enough to go to Big Rapids' Ferris Institute. To pay his way, he worked as a short-order cook in the Blue Front Cafe. Eager to get on in the world, he quit Ferris after two years, moved to Ma Kelleher's boarding house...
Stable Door. In Monroe, La., city fathers voted to renovate the 44-year-old local jail after 90-lb. Prisoner Betty Grayson ripped the bars out of the window and escaped...