Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letters from the task force were uncensored, and excited wives and parents passed many of them along to local newspapers. AEC Chairman Gordon Dean said that the letter-writing would be investigated, promising "possible disciplinary action or prosecution." But such talk sounded like bureaucratic door-locking after the story was out. The place to begin censorship was in the ships' mail rooms, and no such censorship...
...Nazis coming back? Last week, commenting on West Germany's local elections, some foreign newsmen seemed to think they are. New York Timesman Drew Middleton, who has been making predictions of a Nazi revival for years, reported the specter of German fascism overhanging every ballot box. Bonn protested "splash headlines" and "one-sided reporting" by foreign correspondents. Conditions in Germany, said Konrad Adenauer's press chief, are "extraordinarily stable"; the election proved that both left and right extremists are "steadily sinking in numbers...
Actually, the election itself-a purely local scramble for 100,000 council seats-proved very little. Three facts stood out: 1) neo-Nazis and other right-wing radicals made gains, all of them proportionately small; 2) the established democratic parties-Konrad Adenauer's right-of-center coalition and the opposition Social Democrats-sturdily held their ground and their majorities; 3) the Communist vote diminished...
...days before, Cardinal Segura sent his flock a pastoral letter deploring the semi-religious ceremonies which the Falange conducts in each Spanish town around the "Cross of the Fallen," ubiquitous local memorials to Spain's civil war dead. These invariably end with local Falange leaders crying out: "Those fallen for God and Spain?"-and with the crowds answering: "Present...
...Franklin was far away from the literary tea set. He was in Spain making his debut as a teacher of young bullfighters, in the small (pop. 18,000) Andalusian city of Alcalá de Guadaira, eight miles from the famed bullfight center of Seville. Franklin had patched up the local bull ring, unused for 25 years, with $6,000 of his own money to provide an arena for his school...