Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That's Great." Local Eisenhower supporters, without the help of the national organization, campaigned for write-ins, too. The result: a clear-cut Taft victory. He got 76,556 write-in votes to 61,592 for Ike. Stassen, whose name was printed on the ballot, trailed with 53,444. Nebraska's 18 delegates were not necessarily bound to follow the preference vote, but the best estimate was that 16 would vote for Taft, one for Ike, with one uncommitted. Said Taft, when he got the news from Nebraska: "Gee, that's great...
...Joker. Moreover-and this sent Britons cabling home for instructions-Russia would accept payment for her wares in local currency and spend the money in the country of origin. Peking Banker Nan Han-chen, the chief Chinese delegate, was equally specific about Chinese wants. Said one Briton: "These people [the Chinese] didn't come here to shoot off hot air, but to do business." Down in the fine print was the joker: the West must end its embargo against the Soviet bloc, and especially against Red China...
Britain's five-month-old Tory government got a painful jolt from the voters last week. In a struggle for control of the world's most powerful local-government body-London's huge County Council-Socialist candidates ousted 26 Tories and one Liberal, rolled up a huge Labor majority: 92 seats to 37. Cried Herbert Morrison, onetime cockney errand boy who became Socialist boss of London and then his country's Foreign Secretary: "Thank you, London...
Tories at the hustings stuck closely to local issues, e.g., Labor's failure to build homes for 175,000 London families, many of whom were bombed out. Laborites pitched their campaign to national issues, blaming Winston Churchill's cabinet-instead of Britain's economic crisis-for higher prices, smaller rations and growing unemployment. So surprisingly effective was Labor's campaign that Socialists won power not only in politically vital London, but also in outlying counties where Tory strength is traditional. Example: Middlesex County cut its Tory majority from 40 to 5. These were but local elections...
Amid the craggy wastes of Hashemite Jordan, wiry, Nevada-born Engineer John Monroe looks not much bigger than a pine sapling, but last week the local Bedouins were calling him "the Man Mountain." And why not? For if Allah, in his wisdom, sees fit to move a mountain, and a little man all alone pushes it back again, is not that man as good as the mountain...