Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your article stirred up quite a tempest in our city . . . The whole town was seething with glee ! The local radio stations announced from time to time where copies of TIME could be obtained. On a radio program for the March of Dimes, 1,000 copies were offered to people who contributed to the charity and claimed their copy. In short, your magazine turned the town upside down ! ... It will be almost impossible for you to realize the caliber of this service to the populace here, or the magnitude of the words "thank you'' which have echoed through...
...tall, greying, debonair, 58-year-old Norman Morton-Stewart. "His usual lunch bill was around ?18 ($50)," said an awed headwaiter in Birmingham last week. Even Norman's pretty young (29) wife, whom he invariably introduced as "Lady Barbara," was overawed by her husband, the manager of a local travel bureau, and also somewhat vague about the source of his wealth. "He used to tell me he had inherited a huge fortune in America from an uncle," she said. "His father was a very big man too, and his aunts had a large estate in Scotland." From the time...
...Older. A group of frontón courts, strikingly similar in line and color to the ancient pyramids near by, seem even closer to Mexico's Indian past. Actually, the structures are made largely of concrete, and the local volcanic rock is used merely as a coating. A far more striking blending of Indian and international is Architect-Muralist Juan O'Gorman's magnificent windowless library (see opposite page). O'Gorman, son of an Irish father and Mexican mother, has decorated the four sides of his tower with vast and vivid mosaics pairing heraldic symbols...
...join five former leaders of the outlawed Communist Party, the cops arrested the Reds and closed in on the colonel. Shouting "I will not leave here alive," he fell back. The cops, not too sure about collaring colonels, also fell back. For three hours they stood guard until the local garrison commander was finally found at an afternoon movie. "Remove him by force, if necessary!" he roared...
Bishop Eric F. MacKenzie, Auxiliary Bishop of Boston, said, "Local authorities had nothing to do with it (the excommunication). No one here could do anything with him. We made an appeal to his conscience, but it didn't seem to work...