Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Laureanistas are often called Bluebirds-blue being the Conservative color and bird the local slang for villain. One area where the Bluebirds are on the rampage is the south. Two months ago they hacked 14 Liberal farmers to death and hurled their bodies into the Bache River. Terrorized Caicedonia, 125 miles west of Bogota, is another Bluebird battlefield. A two-street town with a population of only 5,200, it has seen twelve murders in the last six weeks. Twenty others have been killed in the area around Caicedonia...
...Cremonini's paintings is force. His father cultivates a gentle sensibility while coaxing locomotives up to 75 miles an hour; the son works up power standing before an easel. Among his early subjects were slaughterhouse carcasses-gleaming slabs of meat and bone which caught his eye in the local abattoirs. Later came the fishermen and bathers of Ischia, where he is living, and rock-hard women like the one at right. He works on as many as 20 canvases at once, explains that "they are all slowly maturing...
Like several other Southern states seeking to lure Northern industry, Tennessee in 1951 passed a law allowing local communities to issue revenue bonds to finance industrial expansion. Last week the law was used in a way Tennesseans never expected. Citizens of Sevierville (pop. 1,700) voted unanimously (544 to o) to issue $2,000,000 in bonds to build a new plant for the Cherokee Textile Mills-which is moving, not from the North, but from Knoxville, just 24 miles away...
...Embalming is not necessary except in delayed burials and except when casket is shipped by common carrier for non-local burial...
...army camp. The troops, he soon discovers, would rather have a pint at the village pub than enjoy the weekly entertainment provided for them by a group of patriotic ladies known as the May Savitt Qualthrop String Quartet. The daring chaplain decides to compromise and give the boys a local talent quiz show...