Word: locales
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Roughhewn, farm-bred Herschel Loveless did not go to college, got a job as a railroad worker in Ottumwa, was the city's street superintendent when his handling of a 1947 flood turned him into a local hero and set him up for election ao mayor in 1949. Consistently underestimated by the dominant G.O.P. , even after he beat Incumbent Governor Leo Hoegh in 1956, he exploited his old-shoe manner to win easy re-election in 1958, began to look like a political Music Man to rebrassed Democrats and out-of-tune Republicans...
...year or so ago, a prisoner in the penitentiary, a sometime farm hand who had once worked on the Clutter farm, told two fellow convicts, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, about a safe full of money that Herbert Clutter kept in the house. The safe, like the local legend of Herbert Clutter's great wealth, was a product of imagination, but that trivial fable was the beginning of a twisted thread that for the Clutters ended in terror and death (TIME...
...maneuvers required in pilot-proficiency checks place less stress and strain on the aircraft than that frequently encountered in routine and regularly scheduled operations." He was backed unanimously by airline officials. National Airlines' Vice President L. W. Dymond hurriedly said that the problem was a result of "local misunderstanding"; the pilots would indeed continue to take such tests-or else lose their licenses. Still, the telegram served to dramatize the pilots' union feud with General Quesada's administration: a feud based principally on the fact that in his 13 months as boss of civilian and military...
Since education is related to society's needs, federal and state aid should and will be forthcoming to equalize large disparities in the quality of education. On the other hand, education is also a local responsibility--sales taxes by school boards bring home the cost of education to each citizen and increase the power and responsibility of his immediate representatives, the school board...
Rockefeller's bill will not easily overcome various pressures in the legislature. Democrats are using his stand as a weapon in a forthcoming Nassau County election. Other opposition has come mainly from counties who have thought themselves able to finance education without raising local taxes, who have turned down bond issues repeatedly. Significantly, however, opposition to educational spending has reversed its field. Where once "federal" control was the bugaboo, in New York it seems that "local" control is the danger. Fortunately, this is a difficult point to prove...