Word: locally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building committee that got Garden City's new Methodist Church translated from hope into brick. His wife Bonnie was active in the Methodist Women's Society of Christian Service. The Clutters' well-behaved, teen-age children, Kenyon and Nancy, were popular, straight-A students at the local high school. Both were scheduled to receive 4-H awards at last week's Finney County 4-H Achievement Banquet...
Already pressing voter-registration suits against Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana, the Justice Department last week set out for the first time to uphold the right of a Negro to vote in a local election. Moving under the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the U.S. filed suit in Memphis federal court challenging a hoary custom of white Democrats in solidly Democratic Fayette County, Tenn.-the no-Negroes Democratic primary election conducted a year before each general election. Since in Fayette County the primary is the only real contest, the U.S. argued that Negroes are disfranchised by being barred...
...world's hungry? The U.S. last year sent India 3½ million tons of wheat. Since 1954 the U.S. has furnished such nations as Italy, Tunisia, Korea, India and Formosa with about $1.8 billion worth of food, either as gifts or in return for payment in local currencies...
...used so far in 70 cases by Dr. Dotter in Portland and in 30 by Dr. Gensini in Syracuse, the procedure begins with insertion of a thick, hollow needle (under local anesthetic) into the femoral artery. Through the needle the diagnostician passes a flexible steel spring, like a plumber's snake (or like the bass strings of pianos and guitars). The needle is soon withdrawn. Inside the steel spring is a single-strand steel wire for stiffening. As in the Syracuse housewife's case, polyethylene tubing is slipped over the steel spring. But in her case, the doctors...
...come out of them like bread from a bakery oven." This advice by Disk Jockey Dick Clark appears in a new book, Your Happiest Years (Rosho Corp.; $2.95), aiming sound moral advice at teenagers. Yet in a mere three years, ever since he took over the local Philadelphia show that grew into ABC's American Bandstand, Dick Clark has found plenty of bread in the oven. Among the loaves: three other ABC shows, an advice-to-teeners column in This Week magazine, interests in record-and music-publishing companies and other items, all adding up to an estimated annual...