Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...income up to $1.200. If the retired taxpayer's wife is 65 or over, she also gets the 20% credit on $1,200 of her own income (or, in community-property states, on the next $1,200 of joint income). Those younger than 65 who are retired under local, state and federal pension plans also get this credit, but only on their pension incomes. In computing the credit, the taxpayer must subtract from the $1,200 base his social-security payments and certain other tax-free income, plus, if he is less than 75, his earned income in excess...
...Tunis too, the bright promise of local autonomy that Premier Mendès-France brought (TIME, Aug. 9) was already being tarnished by old habits of suspicion. The venerable (72) Bey of Tunis, with Mendès' backing, appointed Tahar Ben Amar, 68, one of the protectorate's biggest landowners, to be Premier. He was certainly as pro-French as anyone could wish. But he immediately ran into difficulties...
Then, on the third day of the search, health officials tracked down and isolated the infected carrier. They refused to give his name, announced only that he had handled the food served at the wedding. It had been the biggest local outbreak of the disease in 14 years. Neither Diane nor Herbert Kang showed any symptoms, but the memory of their happy wedding was sadly marred...
...scientists found the undocumented Russian claims as hard to accept as Russia's love of peace on earth. Nor did they cotton to the basic Soviet contentions that cancer cells are made up of special "proteins" not present in normal cells and that a tumor is merely a local "manifestation" of a generalized illness depending primarily on the condition of the central nervous system. Scoffed one observer: "A lovely projection of the Soviet state...
...yellowish arsenical powder (a widely used turn-of-the-century remedy) for skin cancer. By his own count, he was arrested more than 100 times. During a suit against the A.M.A. in Iowa, in 1931, one patient testified that after Hoxsey diagnosis and treatment, he had gone to a local doctor and discovered that he was suffering not from cancer but from barber's itch. Yet enough patients have stood by him to convince juries that Hoxsey and no other saved them. Through it all, Hoxsey recalled later, "I stood the humiliation for humanity...