Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...filth, surly attitude of so many passenger-train employees (from ticket agents to dining-car waiters), the nonfunctioning of schedules, and the unwillingness of management to work with local and state communities to improve this mess, suggest that the railroads should be forced to sell their passenger service to market-oriented entrepreneurs, or begin to show that they can provide this needed utility. I hope that there will be new efforts and renewed vigor in tackling the problems of America's third great passenger system...
...voter fills out the card in three places. One part is kept by him as a reminder of his pledge; one part goes to local headquarters, with instructions as to whether he needs transportation or a baby sitter on primary election day; one part, marked "White House Copy," is presumably sent to the President. In the return mail comes a photograph of Johnson and Lady Bird sitting in Air Force...
Guerrilla Guides. In the An Quang Buddhist pagoda, the Communists set up a fully equipped command post for the attack. Shortly after midnight, the raiders assembled in units ranging from small suicide squads to well-armed company-size teams, and were led to their targets by local Communist guides. Some were dressed in neat, white button-down shirts and khakis, others in parts of ARVN uniforms or ragtag sports clothes. Dark clouds hung over the city, and only an occasional Jeep moved quickly through the eerie silence. Warned to expect something through captured enemy documents, military police had donned flak...
...streets singing songs and waving flags and shouting: "This is the Liberation Force come to liberate the city! Please be compatriots! Help us liberate the city!" Two-and three-man teams with the same message went from door to door, like census takers, asking for the names of local police and government officials, the addresses of ARVN and government families. Those they got?or found?they killed on the spot...