Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Josephy set about learning what he could from all of them. He wrote letters to railroads, industries, chambers of commerce, local and state development boards, highway commissions, industrial development agencies, newspapers, and even to the Dude Ranchers Association (a sizable industry in some of the valley states...
...will hear reports on internal and external policy and on party and state organizations. The delegates will pass resolutions approving the political line and the practical work of the Central Committee, and go home. Their function then will be to propagate the new "decisions" down through regional, district and local committees, to the tiny three-member party cells, and so to the mass of Russians...
Khufu, builder of Egypt's mightiest pyramid, never dreamed of a structure like the Russian Communist Party. Communists like to make it seem like a pyramid in which power rises from the grass roots up through local and regional committees to the top. The West, on the other hand, usually sees the party as a "monolith," in which Stalin has only to crook his little finger to produce a purge in Krasnoyarsk. The Russian version is nonsense, but the Western idea is not quite right either. The party is in fact a highly complex mechanism which must be kept...
...Local entomologists were not much help. They could only identify the insects as relatively harmless field crickets (Grylus assimilis), not half as ravenous as the grasshoppers that frequently devastate vast acres of crops. There are a few insecticides that might do some good, said the hesitant bug men. But chemists, they admitted, have concentrated on more vicious pests and have not yet bothered to develop cricket killers...
...through the U.S. and Canada, the Brunks are preaching the word in Goshen, Ind., to crowds of nearly 3,000 a night. At their previous stop, Waterloo, Ont., attendance was even larger: 105,000 during four weeks of steady preaching (including 1,500 who made formal "decisions for Christ"). Local Canadian pastors were so pleased with the results that some canceled their own services to let their congregations hear the Brunks preach...