Word: locally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Worst of all, local politicians warned that the Waterbury speech would be a disaster. United Auto Workers local chief Frank Santiquido had promised a crowd of 10,000 and wanted Humphrey to speak from a U.A.W. balcony. But George Wallace's appeal among the auto workers clearly precluded any such turnout. Murphy, fearful that Humphrey would be shouting down from a balcony to a handful of people, drove to Waterbury and moved the speaker's platform down to the green...
...Democrats to 209 Republicans. It would also give the House a more conservative tilt, making it more hostile to foreign aid than even the pinch-penny 90th, more sympathetic to defense appropriations, less anxious to enact fresh domestic programs, more eager to transfer federal projects to state and local control...
...decentralization, and some of the arguments for such experiments are persuasive. Citywide school boards tend to become remote and impersonal; parents, particularly in ghetto areas, want more and more to have a say in choosing teachers for their children. Yet the problem of how to delegate powers to local boards without disrupting a whole system can be staggering...
...open about it now." Other things have also changed. "For one thing, prices have gone up." An ounce of grass now goes for twenty dollars in the street. "And an awful lot of the dealing is now done through the Mafia. They buy up all the stuff, and use local stores as their headquarters. We don't even know who exactly deals with them, but it makes it really hard to get a decent price...