Word: locales
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...complicated by a high-level snafu. U.S. Civil Assistance Teams have been given no clearly defined political objectives, and each team is theoretically responsible only to the U.S. tactical commander in its area. In the Pyongyang area the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team is trying to set up local administration in the small communities around the city. The airborne officers are working hard, but they are not trained for the work, and it seems doubtful that their efforts will have any lasting effect...
Actually, lack of confidence in the new regime has severely limited American business investment. But the presence of American business competition on an equal basis has stunted local business. Meanwhile the regime has stayed in power on the strength of U. S. government disbursements which provided relief food supplies, money for construction projects, and other necessities. Thus the only possible internal sources of permanent economic development--private enterprise and the Philippine government--have failed...
...ever danced with." He has fun at summer camp, talking with the fellows over chow ("I feel plenty rugged after my first morning!") shooting machine guns ("Boy, this training sure is like the real thing!"), meeting bathing girls at the pool ("Kinda makes me wish I was a local boy!"). At the end of the four-year whirl, he is chosen to escort the campus queen at Homecoming...
...traditional ten cent glass of beer in local places of relaxation may very well follow that of New York to a 15-cent bracket, according to local proprietors. At a "publicans guild" meeting in New York City on Tuesday the five cent price boost was voted almost unanimously...
Thornton Wilder held court with a lady representative of "The Boston Post" last week and by yesterday was getting irate letters from local womanhood as a result of the interview...