Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the Nixon Administration has yet to formulate a program for rural America, some corporations have tried to encourage migration back to the country. For example, McDonnell Douglas Corp. has five plants in Tennessee. Initially, job seekers were local residents, but within a month applications were pouring in from former Tennesseans fed up with city life. The Daisy Manufacturing Co. moved lock, stock and gunbarrel from Michigan to Rogers...
...American Negroes also need-and apparently are beginning to get-a new kind of organic, pragmatic leadership created by their own local efforts and emerging self-confidence. Despite King's caveat, blacks must define the issues and values of their own lives if they are to develop a secure identity in the white world. Ultimately, this problem may be eased, as more cities get black majorities and elect more black leaders to political office...
...closer into Boston the courses are, the more expensive and crowded they get. Unfortunately, the best of the local courses--Woodlawn in Newton, Nashawtuck in Concord, the Lexington Golf Club, the Winchester Country Club, and the Belmont Country Club, which is just recovering from having a highway built across its back nine--are all private clubs...
...public courses get very crowded during the weekends, but are relatively open on all weekdays except on Tuesdays, Ladies' Day on almost every course in the country. The Colonial in Lynnfield is the best. Located on route 128, it used to be the home of "Hole in One," a local golf show. It's in good shape, and the rates are reasonable...
...anywhere else. The three Harvard graduates who will gather in the sheckles from this adventure into Madison Avenue conjure up one Ivy stereotype after another, blow on it with their windy wit, and leave it. In the face of unsubtle attempts to infuse rewrites of admissions booklets with local color--paint it whitewash--all of the eight Ivy League schools come out remarkably the same...