Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week President Eisenhower took off on another trip; his purpose was neither fish nor scenery. He inspected reclamation projects in Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska. He stopped in each state except Kansas to extend friendly greetings to G.O.P. congressional candidates, plugged away in favor of more local control of water power and irrigation projects...
...said: "The pattern of Mr. Chasanow's life portrays an above-average loyal American citizen." The Navy, Smith said, had been a "little naive" in swallowing everything that poison-tongue informants had said about Chasanow, who had made enemies (as well as scores of friends) in the intense local politics of Greenbelt, Md., where he lives. Said Chasanow: "It seems like I woke up from a bad dream. The sun is shining. The birds are singing. The flowers are blooming...
None of this appeared in the local press. In fact, when the statement leaked out, all Cairo's morning newspapers printed a statement from Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser denying it. To add to the confusion, foreign correspondents were then told to ignore the denial, which was only for "home consumption...
...Getulio Vargas' suicide, Brazil's outlawed Communists tried hard to keep the pot boiling. But new President João Café Filho was ready for the Reds. When they organized a 24-hour general strike last week in industrial São Paulo, he relieved the local army commander as a suspected Red sympathizer, ordered troops and police to keep the public services going, and, most important, ended the day without gunplay or violence...
...When she launched Newsday on alligator-shaped Long Island in 1940, Publisher Patterson set out to violate every canon of sedate, well-mannered and deadly dull suburban journalism. Instead of loading her paper with name-dropping personal columns, handouts, accounts of tea parties and bake sales and local news that would offend no one, Newsday ran sprightly and irreverent stories, headlined everything from PROTECTED GAMBLING IN SUFFOLK COUNTY to SOCIALITE TOSSED INTO CELL...