Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Postmistress Cox held office for seven years without serious trouble, but then, in a period of rising racial tensions in the South, resigned and left town after receiving threats from a group of local whiles. Whereupon President Teddy Roosevelt shut down the post office until Indianola guaranteed her safe return. Said T.R., in a letter to a friend at the time: "I will be conciliatory with the South up to a point; then I stop, and stop short, too." Indianola was equally adamant, and the tug of war went on until eventually Mrs. Cox herself refused to return under...
Lindsay began walking the city intensively two years ago when he was campaigning for the mayoralty, found it so useful a means of divining local troubles that he kept it up after his election. For the past two summers, whenever the city seemed on the verge of riot, he discovered that merely by being on hand he could often cool a tense situation in the ghetto. "I wanted the people to know," he says, "that this city hall was aware of neighborhood problems...
...government tended to be remote from the people, and the rural administrators sent out from Sai gon were seldom honest, nor were they native to their assigned areas. They were considered foreigners by the peasants, and the V.C. were quick to exploit and exacerbate grievances. They harped on local issues, set up cells, village committees and small military units. Political terrorism was started, and the first armed attacks began...
...crowd?all are surgically planned by the Viet Cong to specific ends. In the countryside, terrorism often aims to stamp out the peasants' sense of security, always tenuous at best. A few guerrillas firing a dozen shots near a lightly defended government village pose an agonizing problem for the local commander. If he calls for reinforcements, it is almost certain that no enemy will be found. If he does not, the villagers may begin to wonder whether the government really means to protect them...
Clyde Stout is a teen-ager who works in a small-town gas station, worships his Chevy and a hard-hearted local girl. One day he discovers a unique inner resource: he can hang by his hands for two, three, four minutes at a stretch. A local gambler begins to make book on him, but "Hanger" sees his talent only as a means for buying new and shiny presents for his two loves. In the end, he loses the girl, is cheated of his winnings, gets drafted, sells his car, and shrugs. In this gentle first novel, told with...