Word: localizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...School students will leaflet today at MBTA stops and local shopping areas and will canvass and leaflet in Charlestown and East Boston. Some students are making contingency plans to defend demonstrators who might be arrested...
Harvard personnel director John B. Butler replied that "Our recruiting effort lasted many months and included many local candidates. We did not find one who satisfied our requirements as exceptionally as Mr. Kinnard does. They [the NAACP] seem to say that we ruled out local people and went out to the foothills of Cincinnali to find someone. This is not the case...
According to McGinniss, the studio panel was carefully preselected. "First, this meant a Negro," he writes. "One Negro. Not two. Two would be offensive to whites. Two would be trying too hard." The audience was "recruited from the local Republican organiza tions," and cued for applause. Ailes also stage-managed Nixon's appearance...
Youth is not alone. In Missoula, Mont., for example, housewives outraged by the foul smells from a local pulp plant have organized GASP (Gals Against Smoke and Pollution). Similar groups have used the same acronym in other cities including Washington, where GASP stands for Greater Alliance to Stop Pollution. In Berkeley, a group called Ecology Action has developed a kind of street theater to dramatize pollution protests. To celebrate "Smog-Free Locomotion Day," the members recently took to pogo sticks, stilts, bicycles, unicycles, roller skates-any and every alternative to the internal combustion engine. Later they symbolically buried an auto...
...year-old woman in Huntsville, Ala., swallowed a large number of aspirins, plus some sleeping pills and tranquilizers. Her local doctor, knowing that she needed help fast, but unsure of the proper antidote, made one telephone call. A brief consultation with an expert on drugs gave the puzzled physician the simple answer. A quick stomach pumping brought the woman out of danger. Three months ago she might have died...