Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cooper got a job in the local public school. John Sherman paid off the debts, managed to send the other six children to college. His task took 25 years ("It didn't look like there was any end to it"), and he did not manage to get into the black until...
There, early this month, came the local members of the Church of God, bent on a three-week revival for the healing of bodies and the saving of souls. They put up an open-sided shelter roofed over with sweetgum boughs, and covered the clay ground with sawdust. They filled the place with chairs and benches, put up a little pulpit and installed two big amplifiers...
...Cincinnati, the pink pill-chemical name: alpha (2-piperidyl) benzhydrol hydrochloride-was tested for 18 months by two local doctors under the supervision of Psychiatrist Howard Fabing. Human guinea pigs: 320 patients who were unhappy in love, discouraged with their jobs, generally worried. Nontoxic, non-habit-forming, Meratran provided a quick pickup and morale boost without the jangling, jittery aftereffects of Benzedrine (TIME, June 14), and without inducing hallucinations or nightmares. Though wary of all such "anti-blues" drugs, independent physicians here tentatively described Meratran as "interesting" and "promising...
...Georgia state school board passed a formal resolution pledging to abide by the state appropriations act, which forbids any allotment to unsegregated schools or the payment of salaries to any teacher, principal, or school-bus driver in any local school system that does not strictly observe the segregation laws. ¶ Appointment of the week:Lieut. General Andrew D. Bruce, 59, to succeed Walter W. Kemmerer (TIME, May 4, 1953) as president of the University of Houston (see MILESTONES). A graduate of Texas A. & M., Armored Forceman Bruce commanded the 77th Infantry Division in the Pacific during World...
...million power and transmission plant at West Memphis, Ark., on the western edge of TVA territory, about 200 miles from AEC's Paducah, Ky. installation. The private companies would then turn over their new power to TVA, thus releasing an equivalent amount of TVA power from local use for AEC. All costs up to $107 million would be borne by the Middle South-Southern group, but anything beyond that up would be shared...