Word: locales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...described as "Q flu" because of the question as to its nature. Virologists soon proved that the virus was no mystery agent-merely the familiar Asian strain. But the ill-health picture in the area was complicated by other factors: the semiannual epidemic of "Spencer's disease," as local doctors like to call unexplained outbreaks of nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, and a second type of upper respiratory illness, milder than flu, presumably caused by a virus of a different family. One or another of Los Angeles' varied plagues knocked out such widely assorted performers as Alfred Hitchcock, Lilli...
...angry Dallas newsmen outside the two-story brick house at 6116 Gaston Avenue, Edmund Barker, news director of radio-TV station KRLD, the local CBS outlet, seemed a traitor to the reportorial trade. Standing beside Barker on the front porch was gaunt, tearful Frances Spears, wife of fugitive Naturopath Robert Vernon Spears (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). When the other reporters tried to question Mrs. Spears, Barker shooed them away, ushered her back into the house, explaining: "Her kids have to have a bath." Growled one newsman contemptuously: "Are you going to give it to them...
...onetime education professor (Yeshiva University), maverick Critic Lieberman bases his argument on the firm conviction that "appeals to 'the public' to solve the problems of education ordinarily result in more harm than good." He feels that "local control has clearly outlived its usefulness," not only because of antiquated taxation and uneven standards, but because it is less democratic than national control. Reason: local control often falls to local bullies and "assorted interests with axes to grind." Not so national control-if it is "in the hands of teachers, where it belongs...
Good Turn. In Salt Lake City, after losing the city key to be presented to visiting Veterans Administration Dignitary Bradford Morse, local VA officials borrowed the county-jail key, had to replace it when Morse went proudly off with...
...Oriental blends favored by domestic manufacturers. But because of the price, only the rich could afford imported U.S. cigarettes, grandly passed them around as a status symbol. The British-American Tobacco Co., which sells American Tobacco's Lucky Strike brand in Europe, was the first to go into local-plant production. But West Germans can look forward to other inexpensive U.S. brands. R. J. Reynolds (Camels), Liggett & Myers (Chesterfields) and P. Lorillard (Kents, Old Golds) are all smoking out ways to cash in on Germany's well-developed taste for Amis...