Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Norwich representative. Ives became an insurance agent-and a politician. Backed by a group of local G.O.P. insurgents, he got himself elected to the New York State Legislature. From his freshman term he specialized in problems of labor and industrial relations (he was co-founder and-for 1½years-dean of the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell). Offstage he was a convivial Young Turk who enlivened one party convention by parading through a hotel overturning beds and occupants (in 1936 he swore off drinking). After 16 conscientious years in Albany (including terms...
Whisper in Great Cornard. Like most political tempests, this one began as a whisper in the grass roots. Young (34) Len Fisher is the local handyman in Great Cornard, a village of 1,000 souls which has drowsed on Suffolk's green plains through seven centuries of British history. He is also secretary of the local Labor Party, and early last year, he got to thinking. Like many another Briton, especially of Socialist persuasion, he was worried about the hostility between Communism and the West. And he was worried about rearming the Germans. So he sat down...
When veteran Suburb Builder Andres F. Oddstad Jr., boss of "Homes by Sterling," broke ground for Linda Mar, the already overburdened local (Laguna Sa-lada) school district found itself facing a 50% increase in enrollment. Required for the new pupils: additional school buses (cost: $60,000) and double or triple classroom shifts in the district's three schools. Funds were short; conventional new public schools would take months, perhaps years, to finance and build...
...school out of tract houses, lease the school to the district until the red tape of establishing a regular school could be untangled. Then the school could be reconverted into its component houses and sold. When Architect Victor Abrahamson showed them the plans for Oddstad's project, the local school board quickly gave him the nod. A San Francisco bank lent the money, and Oddstad's construction crews rushed the school to completion...
Elsewhere in Mississippi, resistance to desegregation was taking on an extra-legal hue. Throughout the state, white businessmen and farmers have begun to organize local "Citizens' Councils" to prevent Negro children from entering white schools, "by legal means if possible." Negro leaders are quietly urged not to challenge the status quo; otherwise, as one councillor put it: "The good feeling and harmony that have been building here for many years could all be wiped away...