Word: locally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...native sons, familiar with local conditions, win most of the battles for position in the social order. They force the D.P.s in the rat colony to accept the least desirable territories, where they lead a marginal existence, exposed to hunger and enemies...
Back in Tilden, Neb., the folks were buzzing with big talk. A local kid, towheaded Richie Ashburn, was knocking them dead up in the big leagues with the Philadelphia Phillies. It was his first season, too. Last week, the Ashburns just couldn't wait any longer. The family-even Grandma, Grandpa and Uncle Elmo -set off to Chicago to watch Richie play...
...movement, and it clicked smoothly along in the well-oiled M.R.A. manner. Statesmen and ex-statesmen from 25 nations (including Italy, Germany and Japan) were there. The cablegram that invited them had been signed by some 51 Congressmen from 40 states (including Senators Barkley, Brewster and Bridges). On the local invitation committee were California's Governor Warren, Los Angeles' Mayor Fletcher Bowron, the University of California's President Robert Sproul, Hollywood's Jimmy Stewart and Joel McCrea. ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman sent warm greetings: "You are giving to the world the ideological counterpart of the Marshall Plan...
...that you begin living the M.R.A. standards"). But there is nothing vague about the M.R.A. technique. Teams of 50 to 500 Buchmanites, many of them apple-cheeked, athletic Britons, have descended en masse upon communities, distributing literature, staging M.R.A. morality plays and organizing banquets to provide top-drawer local backing (like Los Angeles' George L. Eastman) for M.R.A. speakers...
...have been looking up again for M.R.A. At last year's World Assembly, 5,000 delegates held their sessions at an Alpine resort hotel the Buchmanites had newly purchased in Switzerland. In Los Angeles last week, Assembly delegates ate, slept and lounged in a brand-new seven-story local headquarters. "Buchmanism" never seems to worry about funds. But its sources of income, like the number of its converts, are matters that Buchmanites are vague about. Says Founder Frank Buchman solemnly: "Where God guides, God provides...