Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such cases the President faces a peril point of his own. He must decide between the interests of industries that seek protection and the nation's overriding interest in freer trade. In this election year some voters are likely to blame local unemployment on foreign imports...
...householders on Bellevue Place, tenants of sleek new apartments and keepers of genteel rooming houses, didn't mind the idea of a local poets' corner until word got out that Mrs. Stevenson planned to convert the basement and garden of her house into a bohemian bistro. Chicago Gossip Columnist Irving ("Kup") Kupcinet confided in the Sun-Times that Mrs. Stevenson planned "a European style cafe [with] a combination of theatre and nite-club performances." The neighborhood exploded. In vain did Mrs. Stevenson and friends explain that the basement club would be private, the garden performances Shakespearean and very...
...Because there are no recognized unions (they are banned by law), no one expected the strike to spread. But laborers quit first at United Fruit Co., then at Standard Fruit & Steamship Co., finally in most of the area's shops, factories and mines. With breathtaking efficiency they organized local strike committees...
...good Samaritan, Cinemactor John (Surrender) Carroll, who tried to beach rudderless Nicky in a quiet berth in Carroll's apartment near by. On their long voyage home, Nicky got hold of the car door, expertly swung it to blacken Carroll's eye. Local cops, called by Carroll's neighbors, described the rest of the trip. To the echoes of cursing, screaming and collapsing furniture, Nicky greeted them with a manful challenge: "You want a fight? Here I am!" In handcuffs, Nicky was hauled in a radio car to the police station, where he hoarsely announced...
Harsh words were bandied in Whittier, Calif, (pop. 29,265) over whether to name one of the city's main thoroughfares after a local boy who made good: Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon. The Whittier Democratic Club was dead set against any street named for a Nixon both alive and"controversial." East Whittier's Women's Improvement Association (predominantly Republican) plumped solidly for calling it Sixth Street...