Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon Administration's caution has tended 'to blur the guidelines for school desegregation, casting doubt on the inevitability-or at least the near-term certainty-of enforced integration in the South. The result is a loss in valuable psychological momentum. For local Southern officials, the pressure to integrate can be cruel, and the most effective argument they can make to their constituents is that integration is inevitable under the law. If Washington's course is ambivalent, if school districts that have held out the longest against the law are now granted still more delays, then the position...
Though Lyndon Baines Johnson himself may be furtive as a desert fox, his works are everywhere in booming Austin. During Johnson's vice-presidency and presidency, the city became a key federal administrative center, adding at least 5,000 jobs to the local payroll. On the University of Texas campus, a $12 million public-affairs school and library is going up, which will house L.BJ.'s 8,000 filing-cabinet drawers of papers...
...Right. Grass travels in a green-and-white Volkswagen bus decorated with a Social Democratic rooster crowing "Es-Pe-De." He usually heads for an area in which the SPD either won narrowly or, in losing, drew at least 20% of the vote. Bundestag seats are figured on winning local votes and also on the basis of party percentage of the total vote; Grass's aim is to increase the Socialist national percentage and thereby secure more seats for the party...
...Golden Sands and other Black Sea resorts, these tourists are kept segregated in hotels with names like Moskva and Berlin. But such isolation has proved ineffective, partly because hotels for Easterners and Westerners are often identical. One night this summer, an English tourist, shnoggered on the delicious and potent local slivova, meandered into the wrong hotel, opened the door of room 220 with his own key and flopped into bed with a large and compliant Russian lady...
...better organized. It was not the Federal Government but blocs of farmers who in reality determined the policies of the Agriculture Department. Broadening the powers of the Interior Department gave timber interests more incentive to exercise sway over government. The Army Corps of Engineers responded to the demands of local developers. Direct federal control, so widely asserted in theory, became more and more attenuated in practice...