Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hershey, the director of Selective Service, sent to the nation's 4,088 draft boards on Oct. 24-just two days before his memorandum advising that all draft-deferred protesters who act against the "national interest" be inducted immediately. In his earlier notice, Hershey pointed out to the local boards that the draft law clearly states that it is unlawful to mutilate or abandon registration cards. Any man guilty of doing so, Hershey advised, should be reclassified and declared a delinquent-which under the existing draft law means he is among the first in line for induction...
Perhaps that's what made him try show biz. He had won money in the Charlie Chaplin impersonation contests that were the craze at local vaudeville houses. Midway in his junior year at East High School, he dropped out to become a dancer at Cleveland's Bandbox Theater. His partners in subsequent years included a pair of Siamese twins and a neighborhood girl, Mildred Rosenquist. Years later, Hope said that "we would make seven or eight bucks, and I would split it with her." Mildred, now a California housewife, challenges that claim to this day. "Bob told...
What accelerated the settlement was U.A.W. President Walter Reuther's vow, in the event that last week's talks faltered, to set the same strike deadline for both national and local contracts. Rather than attempt the sticky business of negotiating those pacts simultaneously, G.M.'s new president, Edward N. Cole, pressed his men to stay at the bargaining table until they could get the national contract...
...welcome relief after Ford's strike and scattered walkouts at both G.M. and Chrysler, the new contract assures the auto industry of labor peace until 1970-though it could be a shaky peace at first. Reason: local issues are still unresolved by all but 15 of G.M.'s 134 bargaining units. Probably the most restless of all U.A.W. members, G.M. workers are thus in a position to stage local walkouts that could disrupt production or even close down the company altogether. Reuther considers that unlikely. The new national contract, the U.A.W. boss predicted last week, "should hasten...
...tenants has more than a bearable streak of treacle, it is hard to cavil at the squire's well-meant fatherliness. Births, deaths, maids slipping into the shrubbery with the lads of their choice, the dotty and the shrewd, the pleasures of the bed and the hum of local politics-nothing escapes the chronicler's notice. But after a while the detail be comes soporific, the eye closes, and the thud is heard through the house as the book slides from...