Word: localizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week many Democrats from north and west Texas, who had never considered the dapper "Duke of Duval" anything more than a local political princeling found that he had become a powerful kingmaker. In the stretch of one of the closest political races in U.S. history, he was the man most responsible for Congressman Lyndon Johnson's nomination over Coke Stevenson for the U.S. Senate...
...animals grazed, peasants slept under trees. Only at rare intervals did we see a few dead bodies. Here & there was an overturned Hyderabad truck. At the village of Homnabad, the Indian army showed off its prize prisoner: he was a middle-aged clerk who had been secretary of the local Razakar organization-the band of Moslem diehards and guerrillas led by fanatic little Kasim Razvi (TIME, Aug. 30). A meek character in a grey Persian lamb fez and long coat, he looked just as his leader Razvi might look if the fire were gone from his eyes. He was captured...
...company's elevators, farmers can hold off for better prices from middlemen, and Brazil will have to import less wheat. Another joint company has set up four model hog farms in São Paulo State, where farmers can get the word on scientific breeding and feeding. Local packers on the lookout for better meat have been persuaded to invest heavily in this outfit...
...local chapter keeps decently to itself, avoiding traffic with neighbor fraternities and above all with the barbs*. . . Thus [a] fraternity man can go through [college] as one entitled not to meet more than 40 or 50 other undergraduates . . . Fraternity meals . . . are distinctive, and few Americans not confined in a state prison eat anything comparable to them as a steady diet. Consumption of ketchup along Fraternity Row is estimated at 1.27 gallons per week per brother...
...will be easier to win the battle with themselves if they have a church's guidance. Those who belong to no church are invited "to discover just how much help you can get when you receive that which only the church can give." In smaller cities, a local clergyman will come on for the local...