Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge mingled with this praise and encouragement. The report calls the quality of Cambridge high schools at present "unsatisfactory" and recommends that the University expand its loan program to provide money for Faculty who want to send their children to a private secondary school. The loan program, by subsidizing local private schools, could have the same effect as establishing a University school. This change, together with University building on its Shady Hill property, might concentrate a bit more of the Harvard population in Cambridge...
Meanwhile, a progressive-minded but basically impotent city government has issued a 44-page report on the April riot, calling for many of the programs suggested in the Kerner Report and emphasizing more local control of businesses in the ghetto. But the city government appears to be in a less powerful position than the interests that have always run Washington (Park and Shop and friends) through the Congressional committees...
Knight's dailies are all locally oriented. "I would rather miss the big national story," says Beacon Journal Publisher and Executive Editor Ben Maidenburg. "The reader is going to get that on TV or the New York Times or the newsmagazines. I would rather get that Rotary Club meeting or the Junior Chamber of Commerce story instead." That fits in with Knight's thinking. "It is our obligation to print a lot of local news," he says. "We do very well at it; sometimes, I must confess, to the point where I feel it is boring." To report...
...railroads, financially pressed because of dwindling passenger revenues and high taxes on central-city terminals, air rights have been an obvious and highly welcome windfall. Now state and local governments, equally in need of new sources of money, are also getting into the act. One way is by selling air rights above freeways, which often cut wide swaths across land that once yielded badly needed taxes. Cincinnati, for example, has sold air rights over a stretch of interstate highway to Western & Southern Life Insurance Co. Even in Los Angeles, which still has plenty of open space, governmental agencies are studying...