Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year since the great landslide swept Dwight Eisenhower into the White House. The next national elections, for the Senate and House of Representatives, were a year away. At that political middle point, U.S. voters went to the polls last week in scattered state and local elections. Since it was a year after and a year before, politicians and pundits alike naturally adjusted their political microscopes to examine the results vote by vote...
...election results retold an old story. The Republican Party has been weak for 20 years. Without the wide, bipartisan appeal of Dwight Eisenhower, the G.O.P. would have been in trouble in 1952. No party can expect the prestige or the popularity of its President to blind the voters to local shortcomings, or to make up for lack of local leadership and organization. Where it had the best of local issues and good organization work last week, e.g., Philadelphia and Chicago, the G.O.P. won. Where it had poor organization, poor candidates and got on the wrong side of local issues...
...governor of New Jersey, the result was less surprising. By Election Day, most observers agreed that the Jersey Republicans had kicked away their chance to hold the governorship (TIME. Nov. 2). Exposes of corruption, intraparty strife, a colorless candidate and an inept campaign put practically all of the local issues on the Democratic side. The Democrats ably seized the advantage and held it. Their nominee, Lawyer Robert Baumle Meyner, a bachelor from Phillipsburg (pop. 19,000), beat Republican Nominee Paul Troast, a wealthy building contractor, by 154,000 votes...
Long popular with the local gentry, the college's Gallup rating has jumped noticeably since the quad's completion. Twenty percent of the undergraduates commute from nearby Providence and many are clamoring to live with the big windows and dinner music. But the quad is already crammed...
...Local art patrons have the opportunity this week to see the work of the Rock-pool Art Center, an unique community of Boston artists. During the winter, the program of the Harvard Athenaeum members follow their individual crafts, painting, sculpture, woodworking, and toy making. Summers, the men retreat to New Hampshire where they combine their talents on various projects. Each piece they turn out is designed as a general commodity rather than as an "ivory tower" art product. The Behn-Moore galleries, in the basement of the Brattle Theatre, will be exhibiting 400 Rockpool objects until November...