Word: localize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Tree. The idea began eleven years ago in Ipswich, Mass., when residents set out to save a marsh from a drain-and-fill project. In seeking legal authority, they discovered a local ordinance empowering Ipswich to acquire land for uses that might enhance the community, and then drafted a bill allowing any town in Massachusetts to protect its natural resources. In 1957, the state legislature passed the law, and 285 Massachusetts towns have since created conservation commissions. Both the state and federal governments have also put up matching funds that help the commissions buy land for public use. One result...
...movement began to cross Massachusetts' borders, helped immeasurably by an implicit appeal to regional traditions. For one, the basic unit of government in New England is the town, and commissions fit easily into the scheme of town meetings. For another, given state and federal matching funds, the local governments were able to buy open land by putting up as little as 25% of the money. No Yankee could resist such a bargain...
...coastal towns are acting to protect the state's water basins, shoreline and lands below the high-tide mark. The town of Harding is considering a novel "stream-protection zoning" statute that would thwart pollution and overdevelopment along its many small streams. In short, the commissions are uniting local officials and environmentalists for action where it counts-at the grassroots level where decisions are made...
...Arlo, he wandered off with a guest talking about a tree house he wanted to build in the woods. Alice's Restaurant, the Arthur Penn movie based on his song, had opened the night before in nearby Pittsfield and had been roundly snarled at by two local critics. If Arlo knew, he didn't care. He was a married man now, and what mattered was taking care of the roses, buying a plow for his four-wheel-drive truck and rounding up those puppies...
Galbraith is down on the local food: "I have never been in a city where it is so easy to lose weight." On the whole, however, India gets high grades from the professor. It is Washington that he really cannot abide. He complains of the way jet fighters were shipped to India's unfriendly neighbor Pakistan. It was, he remarks acidly, about as furtive as "mass sodomy on the B.M.T. at rush hour." But it is another vexing American institution, the State Department-which he considers short on policy, long on platitude-that Galbraith finds hardest to forgive. "Mindless...