Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...institution," said the dissenting opinion, "the electoral college suffered atrophy almost indistinguishable from rigor mortis ... At its best, it is a mystifying and distorting factor in presidential elections which may resolve a popular defeat into an electoral victory. At its worst, it is open to local corruption and manipulation ... To abolish it and substitute direct election of the President ... would seem ... a gain for simplicity and integrity of our governmental processes...
...Laborites who came up from the union ranks, like Ernest Bevin, or through local politics, like Clement Attlee, often feared and fought him; once they exiled him from the party for six years because the well-born intellectual continually leaned further left than his working-class colleagues. But they probably would never have carried their party to power without the tall (6 ft.), ascetic intellectual from the Cotswolds who ate nothing but nuts, raw fruits and vegetables (because of colitis picked up when he was an ambulance driver in World War I), preached from the pulpits of his beloved Anglican...
Franco's bid for Western good will hit one snag. From New York's Mayor Vincent Impellitteri went an urgent cable to Madrid's Mayor José Moreno Torres, withdrawing an earlier invitation to visit New York City next month. Local labor union leaders who rate Franco as a fascist and union-buster had threatened to call demonstrations. Mayor Torres manfully accepted the dis-invitation but added acidly: "When I invite someone to my home for dinner, I first make sure I have enough food and a place at the table...
...Local sailing fans will get their first chance to view a major meet this weekend, when the varsity competes at M.I.T. today and tomorrow for the George Owen Trophy...
Shelton is vice-president of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of colored PPeople, whose national headquarters issued a directive against the conference scheduled for this weekend in Wisconsin. Shelton was "advised" to drop his association as delegate...