Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. J. Waties Waring, 87, native South Carolina federal judge who in 1947 opened the state's polls to Negroes; after a long illness; in Manhattan. Judge Waring's courageous decision to force the enrollment of Negroes in South Carolina's primaries so inflamed local whites that they stoned his house in Charleston, burned crosses on his lawn, and ostracized him from society. The judge stood firm and went on to argue in a 1951 opinion that school segregation per se is inequality -an idea later upheld in the 1954 Supreme Court ruling...
...Shetterly received a 1-A classification from his local board in Cincinnati, Ohio, last month...
This means prosperity, here, and Adzope's dullness does not hide all the signs of its relative affluence. The local delegate to the Assemblee Nationale has a chauffered Mercedes, and dozens of people buzz around on Mobylettes...
...give a physical focus for student activity, the government is constructing a youth center in the middle of town, and for the past few summers has been inviting French and American student groups like Operation Crossroads to work with local students on the building. Progress is excruciatingly slow, but when it is done it will include a large meeting room, a library, a youth hostel, and a bar. Meanwhile, students converse over their shovels...
...unions and factions to infuse a little nationalism into its future leaders. Much of this concern filters down to the Adzope level, especially during the summer when lycee or university students come home for vacation. Last July, President Felix Houphouet-Boigny spent over a week crisscrossing the country, holding local meetings with students to try to iron out any grievances which they might have...