Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...photographs, should surprise no ophthalmologist. It is caused by what is known as "retinal bleaching." When the eye gazes fixedly at the disk, the strong white light reflected from its center falls on the retina, causing a chemical substance in the center to temporarily bleach away. This causes local fatigue, and makes the center of the image appear less intense-a kind of blinding. Thus the weaker light from the disk's edge and the shadows beyond are perceived more intensely than the center and appear more vivid...
...Mass., with the intent to chastise its inhabitants. Merry Mount is anathema to the Puritans because it is an enclave of happiness, fostering a live-and-let-live philosophy, indulging in such rites as dancing around the Maypole. Its leader, Thomas Morton, flauntingly lives with the daughter of the local Indian chief, and carries on a thriving fur trade with the Indians by the dangerous practice of selling them firearms and liquor...
Vienna's predicament was summed up last week by a local critic, who said that the opera needs a gifted director "who is tough, courageous, and does not belong to any of the Vienna cliques." In short, the kind of director that the city has been hounding out of office for nearly a century...
...Aimed at local air-taxi outfits, which have sprung up around the world to serve the short runs now spurned by big jets, the Islander is in remarkable demand. Since the first production model appeared barely 18 months ago, 16 air-taxi companies have put the plane into service from Scotland's Orkney Islands to Australia's Great Barrier Reef. More than 200, worth a total of $15 million, are now on order, and production is sold out well into 1969. With 800 workers straining to increase the Islander's one-a-week rate, Britten-Norman...
...park and school campus that should keep the city's economy flourishing. More significantly, while phased-out military facilities in other cities are still languishing, waiting for someone to do something about them, Springfield's transformation was accomplished almost wholly by the initiative and careful planning of local businessmen. "It's the old story of the community taking initiative," says Springfield Safe Deposit & Trust Co. President Herbert...