Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Putting on Bonds. Opponents of centralized authority denounce it as a betrayal of the movement's tradition of local autonomy. At last week's meeting, the Rev. Robert Burns of Atlanta, spokesman for several hundred churches, asked: "Why is all this control from the top necessary? There has never yet been an organization that, given power, didn't use it. This is no less than incipient dictatorship." Another dissident, the Rev. Rex Miller of Jewell, Kans., complained that "at a time when the Roman Catholic Church is loosening the bonds of its hierarchy, we find ourselves putting...
Before long, if historical patterns hold, consumers may want to begin saving again so as to reduce their debts. At the same time, probably in the first quarter of 1969, the combination of the Administration's three-month-old income tax surcharge, higher state and local taxes and another increase in Social Security payments will really begin to hurt family pocketbooks. The result may well be a cut in consumer spending and a gradual easing of consumer price increases to a manageable level of 3% to 3.5% a year...
...their 464-sq.-mi. city, whose boundaries could encompass the combined areas of St. Louis, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Boston, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Manhattan. While the auto made it easy for Los Angeles to sprawl, earthquake fears made it difficult for the city to grow vertically. Until 1959, a local ordinance limited buildings to a height of 150 feet or 13 stories, whichever was lower. The results of improved structural-testing techniques finally persuaded the city engineers that skyscrapers would be safe. With the ceiling abolished, the city's skyline slowly began to rise. The major impetus was supplied...
...Greece to film Oedipus the King in an ancient amphitheater is also a gimmick, but it has paid off better. The stones of the theater at Dodona and the sere Greek hills behind them grandly evoke the atmosphere in which Sophocles himself saw his great tragedy performed. The local peasant faces among the extras give an authenticity to the hoi polloi that makeup men could never have managed...
...There is constant praise for his good works, for his favors to both young and old in the neighborhood, for the vast improvements that he has brought to the area during his regime, for the fact that he is a "real gen'leman" (with the dropped "t" of the local patois). At Don's Lunch the manager-waitress whose books Vellucci carried to the local Thorndike School when both were students there can only say, "He is our boy, a real prince, oh I lose my head when I start talking about him--he's so wonderful...