Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nyasaland). The vast majority of its 6,000,000 inhabitants (so far as their wishes are known) do not want to sever their relationship with the British Colonial Office in London. Reason: they are black. In central Africa today, the black man feels he has more to lose in local white governments (e.g., Malan's Union of South Africa) than by rule from a benevolent Britain...
Golfers in Beaumont, Texas were not surprised last week when home-town girl Babe Didrikson Zaharias, 39, won the Babe Zaharias Open, the local tournament named in her honor. The greatest woman athlete of the half century, Babe was an all-America basketball player, star of the 1932 Olympics (javelin, 80-meter hurdles, high jump), winner of all amateur golf titles and queen of the lady professionals. After the Beaumont tournament, Babe entered a hospital for a checkup, and doctors ordered her prepared for surgery. Medical diagnosis: a rectal malignancy. Athletic prognosis: the end of a fabulous career...
...carry Music 'til Dawn from midnight to 5:30 a.m. Monday through Saturday. Five other CBS stations (in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.) will operate their own Music 'til Dawn for American Airlines, but on an independent basis. Format: light recorded music, news, local weather reports...
...intensive search by the Federal Bureau of Mission Birds last night located John H. Ibis '54 calmly tippling in a local saloon. Ibis was reported mission Thursday morning...
...Local ornithologists last night blamed the recent unseasonable weather for the sudden disappearance of the Bow Street Aviary's prize specimen. Treskiornia Aetheopia, the Sacred Ibis. The bird, distinguished by its dull metallic green plumage with irregular white streaks, left its perch stop a well-known society...