Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week's West Virginia primary, the Oregon situation was reversed. With the local Republican machine solidly behind Taft, Eisenhower's name was not entered. Taft defeated Harold Stassen, his only opponent in the popularity contest, by a four-to-one margin. Taft was equally successful in squelching an effort to steal two or three of the state's 16 Republican delegates for Eisenhower. He won all but one. On the Democratic side, there was no contest; the 20 delegates elected will go to Chicago uninstructed...
...last March, Sheriff Jason Ripperdam couldn't help feeling sorry for him. Ferre had been indicted for burglarizing a filling station, two stores and a couple of houses. But a chest infection had left him looking sickly. On-top of that, he was a local boy. When a doctor advised that Ferre be given "as much freedom as possible," the sheriff felt it his neighborly duty to agree...
Dedicated to the proposition that women should become more absorbed in the affairs of their communities, Mrs. Ahlgren joined the Federation of Women's Clubs two decades ago. A fluent, able public speaker, she has taken part in national, state and local movements to sell bonds, encourage youth, preserve historical records, promote the arts, combat Communism, foster child welfare, etc. The roster of her activities takes 27 lines in Who's Who. Among other things, she is a Congregationalist, Republican, special correspondent of the Hammond (Ind.) Times, member of the League of Women Voters, the Order...
...their six years in office in Eboli, the Demo-Christians had done nothing to meet their pledges of new housing and land to the peasants. At a big pre-election rally one night last week, Communist Leader Antonio Cassese, the local dentist, cried: "There will be no peace in Eboli until they give us the land, until they give us houses, until they give us schools for our children! . . ." Townspeople nodded agreement. The Ebolitani say: "Christ may have stopped at Eboli, but the money stopped at Salerno...
Beans & Bread. Anticoli is a medieval town of 2,000, perched prettily on a hillside 40 miles east of Rome. It has a fine breeze, a good view, a Communist regime, and fresh-skinned girls whom Rome artists favor as models. But it has little work; the local wage is 65? a day. The main diet is beans and bread...