Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policy, Dulles pointed out in a speech in Manhattan before the Council on Foreign Relations, reacted to Communist moves and met local aggressions on a local basis. The new policy is based on an entirely different concept. It places "more reliance on community deterrent power and less dependence upon local defensive power"; it plans for the "long haul," and not merely for the sudden emergency...
...Local defense will always be important," said the Secretary of State. "But there is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty land power of the Communist world. Local defense must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power...
...from the wings he calls a cast that looks as if it had been waiting there since Wycherley's last play folded. "My dear Lady Dodds" (Martita Hunt), a magnificent, antique iron doe, is followed on stage by Dr. McAdam (Miles Malleson), a lovable, bumbling country practitioner. The local "artist" (Roland Culver) is also there, and the artist's wife (Elizabeth Allan). The wife's lover (Colin Gordon), a big doublethink expert on the BBC, and the local Labor M.P. (Edward Chapman) complete the ambitious chaplain's board of experts...
...Marlon Brando, the wild one of the title, an actor whose sullen face, slurred accents and dream-drugged eye have made him a supreme portrayer of morose juvenility. The motorized wolves burst into the small town of Wrightsville, stack their machines along the curb, and pile into the local saloon to look for some action. They get it, and so does Wrightsville. The audience sits frozen with a growing horror as the abscess of violence swells and swells until the watcher almost cries out for it to burst and be done with. It bursts all right. Before...
Russia & Uncle Fitzgerald. At home in New Delhi, the Bowles family took to India with enthusiasm. They studied Hindi, and Bowles organized language classes for the embassy staff. The children went to Indian schools, and the girls threw away their bobby-sox for flowing local costumes. Cynthia, aged 16, did public-health work with Indian nursing students and spent her vacations in Indian villages. When Bowles was recalled, she stayed behind to finish her first-year studies at the Santiniketan Indian college...