Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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James F. Meeker '56 kept his pipe going for 77 minutes and 43 seconds last night to set a new local record for continuous pipe-smoking. He received a new briar and will get a free trip to the University of Pennsylvania to compete in the finals...
...hippos have waddled along Happy's slippery path into anonymity. In New York, at the Bronx Zoo, an exotic quartet of two pygmy hippos and a young hippo couple (Peter II and Phoebe) have kept the local journals happy. In the St. Louis Zoo, Harry, the resident hippopotamus, became famous overnight last summer for his aristocratic distemper. It all started when the Zoo decided it would repaint the cages. The work went smoothly until the painters began work on Harry's cage. A nonconformist, Harry never liked crowds, and he didn't like the painters, the paint, or the whole...
Papandrew added that the local Divinity School, unlike many denominational schools, does not represent one or even several religious opinions, but includes a very wide range of beliefs...
Characteristically, too, Massachusetts Senatorial campaigns are fought much more on strictly local issues than in most states. Each candidate tries to outdo the other in promising lucrative chunks from the federal pork barrel. Yet pork barrel politics are a relatively minor part of the role the winner would play as a U.S. Senator. Since he will then help shape policy for the whole country, he should be elected on the basis of his past positions on national affairs...
Statements he made at a Law School Forum on "Crisis in Education" last Friday did not imply a criticism of University admissions policies, a Boston school official said last night. Lee J. Dunn, senior adviser at Boston Latin School, was reported as saying the University was passing up local students to get the cream of the West Coast...