Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a short stint as a lumber shed, it housed the local fire engine, bought just after Harvard Hall burned to the ground. The Faculty voted, in 1779, "that Kendal be directed to see that the College Engine and Bucketts be immediately repaired and plac'd in Holden Chapel." Undergraduate Kendal set to work and organized the Engine Society "for exercising the Engine." And for over forty years, the Engine Society watched all major blazes, invariably doing more harm than good...
...commission, headed by State Senator George J. Evans, chairman of the legislature's Education Commission, included a number of prominent, local doctors, among them David Harwitz, clinical assistant in medicine at the Medical School. The group also consulted with several area educators during its six-month study of the medical school problem...
...Public notice of Jandreau's decision came in G.E.'s Schenectady plant one lunch hour last week, when shop stewards of Local 301 fanned out to poll the members on the switch. The result, they said, was 10,000 in favor v. a mere 200 opposed. U.E.'s National President Albert Fitzgerald promptly notified Jandreau that he was fired, then got a temporary court injuction prohibiting him from "taking any steps or any act to secede from U.E." contrary to the union's constitution. Nevertheless, at a meeting of the Schenectady local this week, members voted...
There seems little doubt that the doctrine of instantaneous massive retaliation that Secretary Dulles set forth in January of this year was different. By supplementing local defense with a strengthened atomic arm, the Secretary had said, we would be able to "retaliate by means and at places of our own choosing." At the same time, expensive mass armies could be replaced by more highly mechanized units with increased firepower...
...foreign policy." But the Democrats were disturbed, and Bowles went on to ask some troubling questions. "If we place our principle reliance in Asia upon a method of retaliation which carries with it what are probably unacceptable risks, and at the same time reduce our capacity for more limited, local responses, as the new policy seems to do, will we not in fact invite, rather than deter local aggression in Asia?... How does the new policy deal with... (Soviet techniques) which do not take the form of external aggression...? Can we afford to put all our eggs into a single...