Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous. At the federal penitentiary in Danbury, Conn., for example, Dictograph Products Inc. sponsors a training program for microsoldering hearing aids, hires the trained convicts after their release. Geared to problem solving, such treatment reconciles offenders with relatives, schools, employers. It is urgently needed in local jails, which should be integrated into state correctional systems. Under this concept, prisons would resemble hospitals; "punishment" would produce functioning human beings-the way to crime prevention...
...Angeles' case, as in many others, the growth is producing an ever-expanding circle of satellite towns, with citizens showing an increased interest in local affairs. To give them the local news they want, Chandler decided there was no substitute for being on the spot. The result appeared last week: the Orange County edition, edited, printed and partly written by a 32-man Times satellite staff operating entirely* in Orange County...
...them as he sees fit. Orange County stories are scattered throughout the entire newspaper. National and world news can be replaced on page 1 and in the rest of the first section, but only if an Orange County story deserves the prominence. No attempt will be made to put local news up in the front sections of the newspaper for mere appearance's sake. On page 2, a one-column daily summary of "Metropolitan" news contains "Or ange County" items instead...
...second section of the paper-containing editorials, features and local news stories in the downtown edition-gets even more attention from the Orange County staff. In the first issue last week, an editorial about Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty's budget was replaced by a we're-glad-to-be-here editorial in the Orange County edition. Two pages of less important local news stories were added, along with two more pages of Orange County classified advertising. The sports section carried stories on a scandal involving athlete-recruiting in Orange County high schools and Amigos' (of speculation...
...U.A.W. was not so agreeable when it came to contract talks cover ing its local at A.M.C.'s money-losing Kelvinator Division in Grand Rapids. At issue was the fact that Kelvinator's 3,100 appliance workers earn less than their auto-production counterparts. While the U.A.W. demanded parity, A.M.C. countered that the average wage at Kelvinator-$2.91 an hour-compares favorably with that earned by other appliance workers. When the impasse persisted, the union merely relayed the company's final offer to the Grand Rapids local without making any recommendation for or against ratification. The rank...