Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other problems, says Campbell, are a lack of free flow of internal news and an indifference on the part of one area to what is happening in another. He cited, for example, a recent experience in Khartoum, where he checked with a local editor for the latest regional news. The answer he got: "Oh, nothing but this business in Uganda. The British have deposed some guy called the Kabaka. We're not going to run the story . not much interest . too far away." (Six hours later, Campbell was on a plane bound for neighboring Uganda to report the story...
...Johannesburg is an ordeal of waiting and cajolery. To phone Nairobi from Johannesburg, you must 1) book the call 24 hours in advance, 2) call via London." Even the telegraph is uncertain. "Once in Ndola. Northern Rhodesia, on a Friday afternoon, I filed a TIME story at the local cable station and asked when it would reach New York. The operator calculated that with luck it might be delivered by the following Tuesday." Between Ndola and Capetown, the operator explained, there were an awful lot of elephants, and elephants have a habit of playing hob with telegraph lines...
...pleas from the lips of traitors . . . men and women who wear the political label stitched with the idiocy of a Truman, rotted by the deceit of an Acheson, corrupted by the Red slime of a White." Joe worked hard to make his audiences (mostly middle-aged and middle-class), local newspapers and local politicos completely McCarthy-conscious. He rarely mentioned the President, and he ignored the Administration's accomplishments, but carried on his guerrilla campaign to get the Administration to cut off all aid to allies trading with Red China. "The question to be determined in this fall...
Lindberg's local recollections extend back further than his bank experiences. He was born in Cambridge, and has remained here all of his 65 years. When he first began work as a teller, he also taught piano, and though he admits "I don't think I could play a five finger scale now," Lindberg still sings with the Aleppo Temple Shirne Chanters. Since he is a bachelor, Masonry is his major hobby, and h e has been a York Rite Mason for 38 years...
...pair of full-dress production conferences, the stage was set yesterday for stepped-up action on both the national and local scenes in the drive for a Harvard theater...