Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They will eschew what they call "the bankrupt New Left technique of single issue organizing" in favor of linking the war to a variety of local problems--welfare, inflation and particularly Cambridge's shortage of low-income housing. They hope local residents will then organize to solve these problems and, at the same time, express their opposition to the war. The details of this organization are still vague, but members of the group have suggested putting pressure on the Cambridge City Council to pass a rent control ordinance, and beginning a weekly newspaper to compete with the Cambridge Chronicle...
Beatles' Sheets. KQED's major focus and strength, though, is local. It claims more than 440,000 viewers a week. Among them: Mayor John Shelly, Lawyer Melvin Belli, Shirley Temple Black, who is a member of KQED's board of directors, and 36,000 other Northern Californians, who devotedly donate a minimum $12.50 annual membership fee that provides more than a quarter of the $2,400,000 budget. Another $200,000 to $300,000 comes from a wild annual public sale that in the past has attracted Auctioneers Ronald Reagan, Willie Mays and Bishop James Pike...
...paper you've waited for since 1964," and the Daily Express, which boasts that it is "Michigan's largest daily newspaper." There is at least a smattering of truth to the claims; the papers look quite professional and carry national and international news as well as local. The Express' run is an estimated 285,000. The three papers have absorbed most of the editorial staff of the Free Press; so far News editorial staffers are still on the News payroll. Except for the big department and food stores, advertising is coming in. If the strike lasts long...
...Local television is also filling the news gap. Not only have the commercial stations increased their coverage but educational channel 56 got an unprecedented ten-week grant of $3,000 a week from the Ford Foundation for an evening news program. In a studio equipped with typewriters and telephones, Detroit Free Press staffers read and discuss the day's news. The program also includes editorials, book and movie reviews. As is usually the case when camera-shy newsmen go on TV they stumble over words but project an air of authenticity. Deplorable as the strike is, Detroit is about...
...long been uneasy at a loss of some $40 million in uncollected sales taxes over the discount's 13-year history. Cries for a crackdown rose this year, when the ministry discovered that as much as $20 million of the tax loss has been the result of some local larceny. Shopkeepers have been more than willing to grant illegal discounts to anyone who could pose as a tourist, including resident foreigners with checks from their home-country banks and Frenchmen using dollars and waving borrowed passports. It was time, declared the ministry, to have some "morality injected into...