Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprise move to ask Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.) to investigate local colleges was defeated at a meeting of the Cambridge City Council yesterday...
...Independence, Mo., Harry S. Truman dropped into a local automobile agency to inspect his latest purchase: a $4,000-plus black Chrysler sedan, with chrome-wire wheels, electrically operated windows and seat controls. "It's got so many gadgets on it," said Motorist Truman, "I'll have to go to engineering school so I can handle it." Shortly afterward, the new owner backed the car out of the agency garage, whooshed straight across the street and rammed lightly into a utility pole on the curbing...
...reassuring voices in the event of disaster. Other radio-TV personalities are slated to spell Godfrey and Murrow over a nationwide network. Well-known regional stars are scheduled to take over various statewide hookups; metropolitan areas will be told what is happening and what they should do by local disk jockeys and announcers...
...waiting for TV opera. In cooperation with the University of Louisville School of Music, WAVE-TV is telecasting 30-minute condensations of such favorites as La Bohême, Traviata and Hansel and Gretel. All of the operas are sung in English; the casts are made up of local housewives, radio performers and music students. The station supplies free scenery, costumes and technicians, while Director Moritz Bomhard and his staff come from the university. Says Bomhard: "The cost is so low I don't like to mention...
...Pentagonal mates--Brown, Dartmouth, and Yale--have usually played two hard, close games with the three Boston schools. The games, however, do not count in the standings. The Boston schools are good enough to play, but not proper enough to join the League, and because of this, local coaches have squawked, interest has dropped, and gate receipts have lagged...