Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bikini bathing suits long enough to notice some eels at play. Those particular eels, thought the Marchese Domingo de Mistura, need fresh water. Their presence was an unmistakable sign that there must be fresh-water springs under the island. With little more than that to go on, Mistura persuaded local and Italian officials to help him drill a well. Last week, after five months of digging through folds of hard rock near Anacapri, he struck fresh water at a point 171 feet below the sea surface. His theory: that he had struck an underground stream of water flowing from...
President Fulgencio Batista was a worried strongman last week. While he was awarding regatta prizes at Varadero Beach, a band of less than 200 uniformed men attacked the army barracks in Santiago de Cuba. Local troops drove off the rebels, pursued them into the hills and captured a cache of weapons and uniforms near Siboney. As the mop-up continued, casualties mounted to 82 dead and 36 wounded; it was Latin America's bloodiest revolt since last year's uprising in Bolivia (TIME. April...
...mark the 100th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi's birth, the city of Verona mounted a production of Aïda in its local amphitheater that was hard to forget: the 138-ft.-wide stage was filled with more than 1,000 singers and actors, not to mention ten horses and a cow. That was 40 years ago. More recently, Veronese have noted with pique that Rome's summer opera, in the huge old ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, have been serving up Aïda on a 167-ft. stage replete with camels, ancient obelisks...
...fact, and another great story of the past becomes reality." Not all his colleagues are so sure. They admit that he may have found the graves described by Pausanias, but Pausanias lived nearly 1,700 years after the Seven, and Greeks of his time were not above glamorizing their local antiquities to attract wealthy Roman tourists...
...such cities as Chicago, San Francisco, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis and St. Louis, which have no local rent control laws, most landlords were planning to raise rents a minimum of 10% to 15%. On lower-priced apartments, increases might run as high as 80%. Many cities set up Fair Rent Committees,' which will try to mediate disputes between landlords and tenants, but without real enforcement powers. Fearful that rent gouging would provoke enactment of local rent-control laws, the bigger real estate men announced that they would hold increases down to 10 or 15%, pleaded with other landlords...