Word: localization
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...LOCAL press lately has been trumpeting the fact that Boston has been laying claim to more and more motion picture "world premieres" -a dubious distinction that sometimes is akin to being the first in your neighborhood to contract bubonic plague. Last fall, there was something called 80 Steps to Jonah , which starred Wayne Newton. Contrary to popular belief, it was not a remake of Moby Dick...
...great man hunt. Firm offers went to several men whose polite replies, when translated, amounted to "Hell, no, I won't go." The Selective Service System, after all, is vilified by many youngsters, attacked and second-guessed on Capitol Hill, and burdened with an archaic network of local boards that constitute an administrative nightmare...
...pattern was repeated after the Weathermen staged their window-breaking "wargasm" in Chicago last October. Within a week, government attorneys had subpoenas on the desks of local editors and station managers, and a special county grand jury followed suit. Last Decembers gun battle between police and Black Panthers set off another round. Lawyers preparing a defense for seven Panthers subsequently charged with attempted murder say they have served some 50 subpoenas to "virtually all media sources in Chicago." The subpoenas order, among other things, access to reporters' notebooks...
...Schenectady, N.Y., a city of 71,000 where G.E. maintains its biggest plant complex, the strike from its outset was a kind of holy war. Many of the Italian-Polish-and German-descent members of International Union of Electrical Workers' Local 301 are second-or third-generation laborers in the heavy-equipment plants. They speak a language of "them" and "us" that has vanished from worker terminology in many other industrial towns...
...Especially after November, we felt that we had a large constituency, and that a substantial minority actively opposed the war. We think that the important thing is to concentrate on local planning and plan-ning for congressional elections." she said. "We also want to reach people who may be sympathetic with us but who haven't acted," she added...