Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boston University is the only one of the three local schools planning any extended expansion. B.U. has purchased land adjoining the present campus and will build within three years, Faulkner said. The new buildings will allow the first year class to increase from 72 students...
...East's oil age, the tribal Arabs had a morality and political system which suited their severe lives crudely but comparatively well. The poorest Bedouin could get an audience with the great sheik and a handout from his kitchens. The mistreated slaves could flee to the local ruler, demand protection under the law of the Koran...
...through the encyclopedia from A to Z; currently he is writing a history of Kuwait. He is a kindly, gentle man, with a low, musical voice which he seldom raises. Every Friday he takes off on a cruise in his well-fitted dhow, accompanied by officials from K.O.C. and local American and British diplomats. He relaxes and invites his foreign friends to air their problems. There is nothing about him of the autocratic air of his neighbor, Ibn Saud. He revived the Majlis (an informal council of sheiks and leading businessmen) which predecessors suppressed. He has plans for setting...
Spirits. In Birmingham. Ala., cops got a tip and rushed to a local cemetery, dug into an odd-looking grave, exhumed a 55-gallon moonshine still, uncovered its fuel supply in the adjacent plot...
Forecast. In St. Louis, Space Cadet Harold Buren, 9, projecting a trip to the moon in 1970, asked the local weather bureau for a prediction, was informed: "No rain, no hail, no sleet. High daytime temperature, 250°; low nighttime temperature...