Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time went on, The Fourteen began to be aware of distressing leaks: the local Communists were tipped off and ready for everything. Even knowing what they did about Captain Sadek, The Fourteen hesitated to act against...
...California, the Fish & Game Department counted up the cost of ammunition, transportation and equipment, figured that it cost local hunters at least $2.50 a lb. for a venison steak. Included in the price tag, however, were some intangible assets: "A healthy, open-air venture, congenial friends who talk the same language, and the chance to change the everyday routine of living-even if it only means getting away from the wife...
...Clarksburg, W.Va. (pop. 32,000), where the morning Exponent (circ. 15,381) and evening Telegram (circ. 24,729) have been the only dailies in town for 50 years, Publisher Cecil B. Highland, 76, rules with an iron hand. The names of local citizens who displease Highland are banned from his papers, even though some hold public office. He has fought daylight saving time, a public sewage-disposal project, and turned down ads for a community project to raise money for the widow of a local hero who had tried to save three boys from drowning. By his own peculiar rules...
Jock Whitney's plan to help Clarksburg get TV had the backing of local businessmen, the Chamber of Commerce and the city council. But Publisher Highland blocked every move, covered his front pages with stories about the evils of TV and the big-city "bellhops" who were trying to impose it on his community. Last week at the final city council meeting to decide the question, the council unanimously approved the plan, which will give Clarksburg TV within 90 days. Many Clarksburg citizens wished that Jock Whitney's free-enterprising ventures could also include a new paper...
...Seven doctors who were told last year that they would lose their privileges at St. Francis Hospital (run by Roman Catholic nuns) in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.-unless they dropped out of the local League for Planned Parenthood [TIME, Feb.11]-were reappointed last week. Actually, they had gone right on practicing at the hospital, and only three had quit the league...