Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purpose of the society, as stated in its constitution, is "to provide a center for rocket research and experimentation." For this spring, the club plans a series of discussion groups to be led by various local profesors. They also plan the construction and static testing of a rocket...
...your report [March 2] which chides the Pantagraph (and its readers) for carrying world, national and state news on Page One, leaving local news for page three: the Pantograph's departmentalization of news may be unusual among standards adopted "by daily newspapers, but it is the pattern followed by weekly TIME in giving its intelligent readers the news...
...Newfoundland, where Premier Joey Smallwood is renowned as one of labor's best friends, one of labor's worst friends got a toe hold almost surreptitiously. Jimmy Hoffa and his racket-ridden International Brotherhood of Teamsters quietly set up two locals with 1,200 members. Alarmed, Smallwood last week bounced into the provincial legislature to denounce Hoffa & Co. as "pimps, panderers, white slavers, murderers, embezzlers, extortionists and dope peddlers." The legislators speedily responded with a sledgehammer law: the provincial government can now dissolve any local upon evidence that a "substantial number" of its union officers have been convicted...
This is the third loss for the 'Cliffe, which now has a 3-3 record in local games. Next week it meets its annual rival, Jackson...
...since the benevolent protectorate of Woodrow Wilson, the fraternity has exerted great in fluence on public affairs. Scarcely a day goes by without the wires clattering out word of some stock market scare or Senatorial guffaw that is in direct response to a professorial edict. Only last week, a local critic noted with satisfaction that the Sunday literary supplements had depended "for years" on a stable of scholars who write weekly reviews...