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Word: localize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Menlo Park, near San Francisco, the local Exchange Club two years ago initiated a Shanghai-born, Stanford-trained engineering executive: Robert U. M. Ting, 35. The Stockton chapter took in Richard Wong, 40, a San Francisco-born gift-shop operator, after hearing a speech on his wartime service as a U.S. Army liaison officer with the Chinese Nationalists. Both were popular; Wong served for a year as president of the Stockton Exchange Club. But when national headquarters in Toledo heard about Ting and Wong, it demanded their expulsion. Reason: Exchange's charter limits membership to "male, white business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: Heated Exchange | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

...week, fighting the floods. In Bonn, Konrad Adenauer and his Cabinet voted to thank the helpful Americans. Wired Adenauer: "The German population is filled with deep gratitude." At the U.S. Air Force base at Tulln, near Vienna, 40 airmen rode boldly into the Soviet zone to help the local population bolster dikes. Later, Red army soldiers joined in. For two days they labored side by side, hardly speaking to each other, but doing a common...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: The Danube Overflows | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

...Russian puppet of long standing. Of the seven Deputy Premiers, six belong to the Russian-controlled "Soviet faction," while only one pays allegiance to the "Yenan faction," as the Red China side is called. Of the 15-man Presidium, ten members are "Soviets" against only two "Yenans" and three local North Korean Reds. Even culturally, the Chinese are in eclipse (Pyongyang high-school students have to spend one hour a day learning Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH KOREA: The Double Invasion | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

...Many other such charters were granted in Flanders during the Middle Ages and kept secure in strong boxes in town halls topped by belfries. The proudest possession of any Flemish town came to be its bell tower, where bronze voices hung always ready to clarion forth any abuse of local rights and privileges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: FLANDERS | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

...Giants called up Willie Mays, who was hitting a fancy .477 for the Minneapolis Millers of the American Association, the Giants' No. 1 farm team. Willie had already made himself so popular in Minneapolis that the Giants' President Stoneham felt obliged to publish ads in the local Minneapolis newspapers to apologize for taking the young man away. But in his first days as a Giant, 20-year-old Willie was a flop. The rookie got only one lonesome hit in his first 26 times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: He Come to Win | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

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