Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annoymous letter-writer was soon to learn, however, that Harvard men were not the only ones susceptible to spring madness. The local record mounted to 24 and then 33. An M.I.T. man put down his slide-rule to devour 42. A daring Middlesex student followed with 67, and to set the intercollegiate record Joseph Deliberto of Clark University downed...
...February 1951, Los Angeles' KTLA set up a camera on Mt. Wilson, 300 miles from Frenchman's Flats, Nev., and televised a blast for local audiences...
...partisan hostility, the House of Commons last week marked a calendar occasion: it was just six months since the Conservatives' return to power in Britain. Winston Churchill had said on taking office that his regime could not be fairly judged for at least three years, but Britons in local elections were making their provisional judgments earlier-and adversely. Many Tories now concede that if an election were held tomorrow, Labor would probably win. The notion that captured some Tories in the first flush of election victory, that they could make things better in a hurry merely by being better...
...taking their cue from Washington, local officials are trying to keep their doings out of sight of the public. At last week's meetings, publisher after publisher told of closed meetings held by school boards, city councils and others handling public funds. Not all the reasons were sinister (explained one alderman: "If you quoted what we said, we would sound like fools"). But there seemed a growing assumption that public business is none of the public's business. Samples...
...Local Public Service: KPOJ, Portland, Ore., for helping teen-agers through Careers Unlimited, and community interest through Civic Theater...