Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Highlights from the fourth annual Memphis Blues Festival, this year celebrating the 150th anniversary of Memphis, featuring country blues, local white blues and jazz musicians. Steve Allen is the program's host...
...revolutionary rhetoric found in black militant groups, there is no evidence of a nationwide black conspiracy. Rather, the manifestations of violence are similar from city to city because they stem from similar ghetto causes. Both the ambushes of police and the internecine black warfare have generally sprung from local, isolated circumstances. Black groups, including such ostensibly disciplined outfits as the Panthers, are too fragmented to achieve nationwide coordination even if they wanted to. With some of the best-known militant figures exiled, jailed or dead, there is no national leadership to hold the extremists together...
...almost worse than if God had died. Not very many people know God, after all. But saints are another story, often they are local boys who had made good. Thus when word came out of Rome last month that some saints had been dropped from a new liturgical calendar (TIME, May 16), both their devout followers and a surprising number of nondevout allies were outraged. The Vatican apparently viewed the new calendar as a routine liturgical change, hardly noticeable in an age of guitar Masses. But the Pope might just as well have issued an encyclical against baseball...
That Kind of Guy. Protestants, Catholics, Jews and even nonbelievers were suddenly making common cause on be half of sanctity. A mock-solemn committee of agnostics and believers descended on a local unemployment office in Los Angeles and picketed in favor of the "heavenly jobless." A truck driver in Boston took his St. Christopher statue off the dashboard, had his first accident in 35 years, and ruefully put it back. An international fraternity of Christopherphiles with headquarters in France reported that enrollments were climbing. Columnist Art Buchwald, a Jew, speculated that good old St. Chris topher would go right...
...must item for the Munsons. "When you're still young, and when you have two babies, this is one place where you don't want to cut down-if only for sanity's sake," says Mrs. Munson. She and her husband have substituted a local movie for their former weekly trip into Chicago, where they used to see plays. They hold one dinner party a week, even though Mrs. Munson complains that it costs an "absolute minimum...