Word: locally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...racers got to Lima (2,900 miles away), there were only 66 contestants left, and the Gálvez boys had won five of the first six legs. They had earned 58,000 pesos ($11,931) and fountain pens, radios, razors, beer, wine, shoes and hats, put up by local merchants and automobile clubs. Only one outsider, a veteran driver named Juan Fangio, managed to muscle in on their monopoly - and paid dearly for it. In a road duel with Oscar, Fangio's car overturned. Gálvez raced on, not stopping to help. (Fangio cracked...
Negro Attorney Martin A. Martin (and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) went to court last year, got a federal judge to order the two schools "substantially equalized" by fall. As a result, the local board bought a new pump and $480 worth of books for the Negro school, and added a stenography course. That wasn't enough to satisfy Attorney Martin; he went to court again...
...local judge had an idea: let the whites abandon their science courses, thus dropping their curriculum to the level of the Negro school. The school board was satisfied with this expedient, but not some of the white parents. At an open meeting in the high school gym, Mrs. Arthur Farrell protested: "We are being discriminated against just as much as our colored friends ... I have a child in the high school who planned to be an engineer. What's going to happen to him?" Replied School Board Member A. W. Walker: "Just take it as a stroke...
Lambie will speak on "Revenues for Local Government;" Cherington presides tomorrow at a forum on "Units of Government," and Friedrich will take part Wednesday in a discussion of government in the metropolitan Boston area...
...actual explosive--called "primacord"--was purchased Tuesday from a local demolitions distributor. The spokesmen from MIT claimed it was so "harmless" that no permit was required...