Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, as the first real pea-souper of this year's smog season rolled over London, 6,000 doctor-members of the London Local Medical Committee, deeply distressed "at the lack of any effective response from official quarters to what can truthfully be described as a national disaster," urged fellow townsmen to protect their lungs with sixpence worth of gauze folded into a six-layer mask and tied over the mouth and nose. The meshes of the mask, said the committee, would arrest most of the soot, while moisture from the breath, condensed on the mask, would prevent...
...Merlino's wife, who takes in washing, had piled up debts of 150,000 lire ($240), which is big money in their neighborhood, and his eldest son was in jail for mistreating her. But there was one matter the two proletarians could attend to: they dropped by the local Communist Party headquarters and turned in their cards. "Look what has happened.'' Merlino told his old comrades, "because I listened to your trash. I just want to work. I just want to feed my children. I want to resign...
...Huggins' opposite flank stand the bitter leaders of 6,500,000 Africans. They oppose the Federation because it i) removes the benevolent hand of the British Colonial .Office, and 2) transfers "native affairs" to a Central African Parliament dominated by local whites. Fewer than 500 Negroes are eligible to vote in next month's elections, but many more are threatening to make their protests felt through strikes in the copper belt and a campaign of passive resistance. The Negroes have the sympathy, if not the active support, of many British Laborites...
...vigorous Fiorello LaGuardia tradition, Max Brauer was a good mayor. Pointing to reborn Hamburg, he trumpeted: "My administration has done this. I intend to stay." But this week 66-year-old Max Brauer was out of the Rathaus. In local municipal elections to choose the 120-man Hamburg State Assembly, which in turn selects the mayor, a four-party conservative bloc inched out Brauer's Social Democrats. The coalition won 50% of the vote, and 62 Assembly seats to the Socialists...
Adenauer himself had .campaigned hard in Hamburg; far more was at stake than local issues. By winning control of the Hamburg Assembly, Konrad Adenauer also won control of Hamburg's three votes in the Bundesrat, exactly the number he needs to give him a two-thirds majority in the Federal Republic's upper house. Now he can amend the federal constitution, if need be, to ensure the legality of West Germany's participation...