Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coffey and John E. Cupples, third-year Divinity students, have been given the money to work under the Rev. Harold R. Fraye, Chairman of the Massachusetts branch of the Clergymen Concerned about the War and pastor of the Eliot Church in Newton. They will help him to organize local elergy anti-war activities. Cupples initiated the week-old project and asked Fraye to join him because, Cupples said, "he is the most politically active clergyman" on Vietnam in Greater Boston...
Skelm and Runcorn faced political difficulties arising out of the dual authority in the town. The national Government had formed a corpora- tion over each new town to draw up its master plan, provide utilities, and build factories and housing. The local government--the Urban District Council--was still largely in charge of providing playgrounds, community centers, schools, police protection, and fire service. The corporation was allowed to spend only fourteen dollars per person on these services...
...shopping complex in another place. The Council hired its own group of architects, engineers, and planners to draw up an alternate plan for the new town. Their plan just happened to place the new shopping complex smack in the old town center. The Minister of Housing and Local Government had to be called in to resolve the debate--in favor of the corporation...
...Department, found that "the U.S.A. is viewed less in terms of a vacation land than as a civilization to be observed and studied." The U.S.T.S. has therefore geared its tourist program to a personalized approach, offering the foreign tourists such things as visits with American families and advice about local customs. Sample: "If you would like your shoes shined, stop by the barbershop or phone Valet Service. Do not leave them outside your hotel-room door...
...incarnation lacks Lee Marvin and much else besides. An arguably lovable villain (James Coburn) plugs an enemy with a long-distance rifle, then takes from the corpse a map indicating a cache of glommed Government gold. Before setting out on the treasure hunt, he finds time to rape the local sheriff's daughter. When confronted by the indignant father, he claims roguishly that the murder was self-defense, the rape merely "assault with a friendly weapon." The lumpish lawman not only buys the story, but comes along on the gold rush. Ultimately, the thief heads for Mexico with...