Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bethke began to learn about type at the age of eleven in Groton, S. Dak., when he got a job as printer's devil on the local paper, the Groton Independent. His tutor was Shop Foreman John Thoeny, who now owns the paper. Bethke worked before and after school and all day Saturday for a salary of $3 a week. He began to learn hand composition, then linotype, layout and makeup. After graduating from high school, he worked as editor of the paper for a year before going to Dakota Wesleyan University. During summers he toured the Midwest...
They were drafted for the most part because local boards thought it unjust that Johnny Jones down the next-door neighbor was entering his third year of draft-exempt graduate study. And the drafting will continue until Selective Service leaders outline a uniform, nationwide policy on exemptions. Local boards will argue that the immediate injustice done to Johnny Jones and his family outweighs the long-range national benefits of highly trained scientists. England, mindful of the critical need for advanced scientific talent, gives its graduate students blanket deferments...
...been traditional in this country to give great freedom of decision to the local boards. Now that the threat of immediate war has apparently eased, draft calls are being reduced proportionately. But these reductions will almost certainly come in the number of very young men who are called; the calls for men in their early twenties will still be as great. And unless a uniform national policy of exemptions is adopted, raids by local boards on the nation's stockpile of scientific talent will cause as much damage in 1954 as they...
...father, Edward P. Bacigalupo, is a prominent local politician...
...because of the effort one members has devoted to the plan. The Council also reinstituted the annual Ames awards to undergraduates and has distributed $1,600 in small grants to needy students. In fulfilling these duties, the Council more than justifies its existence. But even on the strictly local, there were avoidable errors. The on-again, off-again revote in the junior Council elections, for instance, was another example of failure to think a decision through...