Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME-reader Louisa Boyd Gile, poetess and wife of a retired Army major, some 30 key citizens of La Jolla, Calif, met to set up relief plans for the world's needy and neglected children. The group will center its initial efforts on arousing the interest of local civic groups, plans to spend the first money it raises on school rehabilitation kits and tents to substitute for bombed-out school buildings...
...maintain control of the 1950 district conventions, the C.I.O. equipped important Wayne County meeting places with goons. The Fifteenth Congressional District convention, for example, was held in the headquarters of a U.A.W. local. Delegates were received in a small anteroom where half a dozen factory workers watched while credentials were checked. If a delegate passed, he was allowed to proceed through a gantlet of guards, one of whom was armed with something resembling a baseball bat. If the delegate was considered unfriendly, he might be seated on the convention floor with a husky C.I.O. "guardian" on either side. With...
...Town and battlements of the ancient castle were brave with banners. Flags of many nations streamed gaily from each two-decker tram. Shop windows glittered with Scottish silver and tartans. Even dour taxi drivers got into the spirit of the thing and gave unsolicited lectures on local points of interest. The sixth Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama was in full swing...
...cast." But in another field, the class of '36 has proved more enterprising. Among the books it has written: Search for the Spiny Babbler, A Pattern of Politics, Collective Bargaining and Market Control in the New York Coat and Suit Industry, Alkylaminoalkyl Esters of Aminonaphthoic Acids as Local Anesthetics-and The Wall...
Bargain hunters found plenty to choose from. Artists ranged from such established figures as Ogden Pleissner, Dean Fausett and Luigi Luciono to Housepainter Patsy Santo, local farmers, housewives and schoolchildren. Prices began at $15 and ran up to $3,500. Many buyers were year-round citizens. There were also some big-name summer people who showed up with their checkbooks ready, among them Merck & Co.'s George Merck (TIME, Aug. 18), Lambert Co.'s Gerard Lambert...