Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet authorities were up in arms at the treachery of two young painters, E. Sazykin and Andreev, who had been commissioned to paint collective farm life in the town of Bondari. Instead, they were doing a brisk business painting icons and murals for the local Russian Orthodox church. On the ground that it was rank ingratitude to prefer "the dark corners of churches" to "the radiant creativeness" of Soviet life, the art committee expelled them...
...Szczecin, 37-year-old Henryk Jendza, chief engineer of a local shipyard, proudly shows visitors his company's latest product, a 6,000-ton freighter. The city's mayor, 35-year-old Jerzy Zielinski, admits that Poland's western territories lag behind East Germany in reconstruction, but points out that "at the end of the war not one of the 56 bridges leading into the city was still standing. Today we have the highest birth rate in Poland. We have built eight schools in the past year and are working on nine more." Like Jendza and Zielinski...
Banda has even succeeded in pushing through his wrangling Parliament a tough public security bill giving the government emergency powers against local disturbances and against strikes that it considers "politically motivated." The debate on the bill got so heated that police had to storm Parliament and carry out opposition leaders, including Dr. Perera, who kept right on orating as he was being borne horizontally from the hall...
Publisher Newhouse will use the same principle with Condé Nast that underlies his newspaper empire: a high degree of local autonomy. Mitzie Newhouse may have an occasional casual chat with an editor, and Mr. S.I. will keep his sharp eye on the ledger, but Condé Nast will continue to be run on the same fashion-plating formula by Publisher Patcévitch and his staffers...
When Gritli Moser, a little Swiss girl, is slashed to death in the woods near her native village, all the clues point to Gunten, a peddler with an unsavory reputation. When, under third degree, he confesses to the murder and then commits suicide in his cell, the local chief of police and everyone else consider the case closed-all except Inspector Matthäi, who is sure the murderer is still at large. A childish school drawing made by Gritli before her death gives him the clue he needs, and he goes to work-alone, since the other cops will...