Word: localizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House Judiciary Committee approved (by a reported 17-13 vote) a moderate version of the Administration's civil-rights program that would 1) make it a federal crime to block school desegregation by force or threat of force, 2) require local election officials to preserve for two years all records of election for federal offices and permit the Justice Department to inspect them, 3) extend the life of the federal Civil Rights Commission for two years beyond its expiration date next month. Earlier the committee (18-13) junked a proposed, tough section that would have empowered the Attorney General...
...shelter facilities in their own state buildings and set up alternate capitols in protected spots. (Twelve states already have them.) They also cabled the House Appropriations Committee, asking for a $12 million budget item to hire state and city civil-defense experts, provided that Civil Defense Mobilizer Hoegh approves local civil-defense plans...
...relative unknown; for Soustelle there was an agglomeration of odd jobs-including the Sahara. Mockingly, some Frenchmen dubbed Soustelle "the Minister of the Future," and when in last March's municipal elections he failed to win the mayoralty of Lyon-which would have given him a local political power base-many pundits concluded that his star was setting...
...Using local labor wherever possible, the oil camps have given employment to 20,000 Saharans-and thereby increased sales of radios, motor scooters and bicycles in the neighboring oases by 1,000%. Some Moslem employees have even risen to skilled jobs as truckers or members of oil rig crews, but for the bulk of their skilled labor the oil companies are obliged to look to France. To lure and keep the kind of men they need, the companies rely not on high salaries-top wages for an engineer are $700 a month-but on the pioneer spirit, a generous leave...
...these heavy ores. But Soustelle, firmly if vaguely, continues to talk of the day when "we shall see materialize in the Sahara in a new way the modern activities of a big part of our industry." With more immediacy, he talks of building a power plant (to run on local deposits of natural gas) at the oasis of In Salah and of building a full-fledged town at Hassi Messaoud...