Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most recent Avatar, the Children's Issue? Because if you didn't you should buy it and decide for yourself whether it is obscene in comparison with the girlie mags. If it isn't obscene then the police are cracking down on political obscenity and not literary obscenity. Perhaps local officials want to crack down on the mouthpiece of the hippies. But where is there a law that says you can harass a segment of the population you disapprove of? Haven't we been fighting that kind of thing in the South? Oh, but local politicians get mileage...
Less Than Everything. Politically, the Star continues to be reasonably conservative without the doctrinaire tone it once had. It fully supports racial integration, though it has angered some local Negroes by opposing Washington home rule. Its grounds, of course, are not racial but the fear that with home rule Congress would not appropriate sufficient funds for its share of the city's government. The Star generally backs the President on Viet Nam but, as Foreign Editor Crosby Noyes puts it, "we're not for automatic and unending escalation...
...Ansah Asamoa Ampofo, aged 3½, was chosen for her role as carefully as a poster girl. Under a blazing sun in Mampong Akwapim, near Ghana's capital of Accra, the brass band played fortissimo. Then the drums beat. Then there were speeches in English, French and the local language, Twi. At last Yaa was handed up to the platform, where a technician stood poised with his jet gun. He placed it against Yaa's arm and pressed the pedal trigger. Yaa opened her mouth in a gap-toothed smile...
...there a certain amount of melodrama in the dawn crackdown, but nearly a dozen newsmen had been briefed by the cops beforehand and had been given rides to the scene in police cars. Stony Brook Associate Dean Donald M. Bybee called it "a press field day," and a local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union quickly protested the pretrial publicity. Students complained of "Gestapo tactics," pro tested that the ill-timed raid coincided with final exams. The campus radio station called the state's antimarijuana laws unjust and obsolete, while students circulated a petition saying "I, too, have...
...irreversible. The Government supplied nearly one-fourth of the $16.8 billion that all colleges spent last year; by 1975, he predicted, this may climb to 50%. Eventually, he suggested, private donors will give up, or support only highly specialized projects, while federal taxes pick up the main burden and local and state revenues meet the expanding needs of the lower levels of education...