Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hundreds of commuters fumed as they waited hours for local garages to start their cars. Cambridge police showered traffic tickets on vehicles blocking the streets, and 1000 cars were towed in Boston yesterday, the Globe reported...
With its Gestapo creation canceled, Carl Ally is using a relatively gentle tone for Hertz. Its continuing campaign is aimed at the weary traveler who can, through his friendly Hertz man, borrow an umbrella when it rains, make an appointment with the local dentist, or scrounge a quarter for a shoeshine...
...generations, Englishmen have liked to down their bitter in the chatty, relaxed atmosphere of the local pub. That is where they swallow more than four-fifths of the 20 gallons per head consumed annually, leaving the home in second rank as a place to drink. But Britain's new stop-and-sniff law, which went into effect Oct. 15, threatens to change all that. It authorizes police to make a suspected tippler pull to the curb and take a "breathalyzer" test-that is, he must blow into a bag in which crystals that change color indicate how much alcohol...
...test has been trying for some 70,000 local pubs-and for the breweries that supply them. Publicans across the land are complaining of losing their regulars. During the first nine months of 1967, pub sales enjoyed a 4% increase over the same period of the previous year. But October saw a 6% slump. British brewers are now beginning to take stock, and what they see is grim indeed. Bass Charrington reported trade off by 4%. Vaux Breweries, losing money in Scotland, threatens to raise prices. Whitbread sees little prospect of improving profits in the year ahead. Bucking the Trend...
Harvard film fans can check out the latest in "cinema verite" to hit Cambridge as People and Particles: A Documentary Film of a Physics Laboratory makes its local debut at Jefferson Labs this Monday...