Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems that LIME's crew-cut correspondent was assigned to cover the annual Sadie Hawkins Day race-a sunup-to-sundown open season on bachelors not fleet enough to evade the local spinsters. This painful adventure was Capp's idea of tender treatment for a magazine he had come to regard as an old friend. Says Capp: "Gee whiz, you've been so sweet to me over the years, it's sort of like kicking Santa Claus...
...aware that it was dealing with high explosives, the Supreme Court settled back to listen to three days of argument on the U.S.'s sharpest social issue: segregation of Negroes and whites in public schools. Segregation is mandatory under the laws of 17 states, and is legal, if local districts want it, in four others.* Before the court were cases from four states (South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware and Kansas) and the District of Columbia. The cases varied in detail, but they added up to a carefully coordinated effort by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...investigation bore its first fruits. Four of the witnesses who had appeared before the grand jury were indicted for perjury. To Miami's astonishment, one of those accused was Mrs. Helen Russell, 55, wife of a railroad engineer and onetime Sunday-school teacher. As vice president of a local "civic association," Mrs. Russell had led agitation against admission of Negroes to Carver Village. According to the grand jury, she had lied under oath when she denied asking Ku Klux Klan assistance in her drive to prevent Negroes from moving into the housing development. She had perjured herself again...
...Bradford Hill checked the life histories of 1,465 patients with lung cancer (1,357 men, 108 women), and compared their accounts with those of an equal number of men & women of the same ages who were in the same hospitals but with different ailments. To rule out local variations, they spread their work over five British cities and two rural counties...
...Angered by the local P.T.A.'s criticism of the way schools teach the three Rs these days, the sophomore class of Washington's Coulee Dam High School challenged the grown-ups to an old-fashioned spelling bee. Last week, for 20 minutes, the grown-ups did their best, but they missed embarrassment, flubbed efficiency, collapsed on laboratory and paraffin. Final score: victory for the sophomores...