Word: localizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took office as Chancery Clerk in Mississippi's Claiborne County, the two-member white staff quit. Mrs. Collins is black. Dan Nixon, a Negro magistrate in Brownsville, Tenn., was never informed of the date for the swearing-in ceremony after his election and had to seek out a local judge to be formally installed in office. Griffin McLaurin, a black constable in Tchula, Miss., has a problem with the white justice of the peace in his district. Says McLaurin: "When I bring someone in on a traffic charge, if it's a white...
...several Southern states local officials are paid on the "fee" system, according to the number of cases they handle. In towns where there is more than one justice of the peace, white officers can choose which J.P. they will bring minor offenders to for hearings. If one J.P. is black and the other white, the Negro official is simply ignored. William Childs, a black justice of the peace in Tuskegee, Ala., is one victim of this system. Childs charges that the white J.P. in his district averages 300 to 400 traffic cases a month, while he gets no more than...
...have degenerated into a one-man show. Instead, it is a two-man performance. The second man is Director John Flynn, who, faced with a prodigious actor and an undeveloped scenario, has fleshed out his film with nuances. The barracks life of monotony and loneliness is depressingly acute; the local pay sans, whose faces are maps of rural France, give an extraordinary sense of locality to a story that badly needed roots. Unfortunately for the film, neither Flynn nor Steiger bears the antidote for the sting of predictability...
Bridwell, and Alan S. Boyd, Secretary of Transportation, have been considered advocates of local control of highway routes. But Bridwell, by leaving the second hearing proposal to the judgment of the Nixon administration, apparently has doomed the anti-Belt fight...
...pure Swedish import in the manner of all those Essy Persson pictures I never saw, but it appears to have been actively produced by an American named Gross who has managed to stick a poster from one of his previous efforts, Teenage Mother, in a scene at a local Swedish train station. I imagine he wants to tell us that Teenage Mother has made it as far out of 42nd Street as Stockholm, but don't you believe...