Word: localizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appointment was viewed by them as an excellent one. Though a physicist deeply devoted to the intricacies of basic science, DuBridge has built his reputation primarily as a thoughtful and creative administrator. He is also a social activist in Los Angeles, where he is chairman of the local Urban Coalition. Speaking at Notre Dame last year, Dr. DuBridge decried the use of university facilities for secret research into such things as weaponry...
...even faster: excluding social security and other Government insurance plans, the cost of welfare to all levels of government is $5.5 billion a year. Of this, the Federal Government pays a little more than half, the cities about 12%, and the states a third. Many of the cities, including local government in the suburbs, are discovering that welfare is threatening them with bankruptcy. In a little more than two years, New York City has added enough people to the rolls to constitute another Miami. Some 20,000 more are added each month, and by the end of next month...
Freedom Riders influenced him to dedicate his efforts to promoting racial integration and defending civil rights demonstrators wherever local white attorneys were too scared to take their cases...
...result was an 8-lb. boy named Thomas Knack, whose coming was no cause for celebration in the Knack household. The husband is a low-wage railroad worker already supporting five children. He blamed the local pharmacist, who had misread the handwriting on Frau Knack's prescription, for the birth of Thomas. Arguing that the error would strain the family budget, the Knacks took Pharmacy Owner Hans Reimer to court to recover damages...
...chicken farm to support himself. The farm was on the verge of bankruptcy and his works were not selling when, one day in 1960, a student walked into an art class he was teaching at a New Brunswick community center with a plaster-impregnated bandage marketed by the local pharmaceutical company, Johnson & Johnson. She asked Segal whether he thought it could be used as an art form. Segal took the stuff home, had his wife wrap him up like a mummy, and almost tore out his hair getting it off again. But the experience turned his life around. "I discovered...