Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Utah, by a 4-to-1 majority, Republicans picked Wallace F. Bennett, a small business (paint & glass) man who once headed the National Association of Manufacturers, to run against the Democrats' scholarly Senator Elbert D. Thomas. Fair Dealer Thomas, who had never paid much attention to his local political fences, seemed to be in real trouble this time, facing his stiffest fight in years...
...swelled loud and heady last week. The German community, 13,000 strong, was celebrating victory-and revenge-in the first vote of the former German colony as part of the Union of South Africa. The Germans had swung the election-all six House of Assembly seats, 16 of 18 local legislative assembly seats. Their victory in South-West Africa gave a clear majority in South Africa's Parliament to the anti-British, pro-Boer, white-supremacy government of Prime Minister Daniel Malan...
...peso is worth around six cents. Though the increases horrified local residents, dollar-bearing tourists still found it possible to regard beef at 25 cents a pound and rum at $1 a bottle with equanimity...
...editors overplaying the Korean war? Are readers losing interest in it? Last week Colonel Robert R. McCormick's unshakably isolationist Chicago Tribune seemed to think the answer to both questions was yes. On the Tribune's front page one morning, readers found two local stories (FENCE PUZZLE NO ALDERMAN CAN STRADDLE; FIND WOMEN "SMUGGLED" INTO JAIL INMATES) and eight national and international stories, but no mention of the war, except a four-line box tucked in a Washington dispatch: "South Koreans fall back a mile . . . Details on page 9." On page 9, the Trib covered the Korean fighting...
...some with two-year courses leading possibly to the degrees of A.A. (Associate in Arts) and A.A.S. (Associate in Applied Science)-for students who want college-level study at low tuitions and close to home. Under New York's plan, half the capital cost must come from the local community. In addition, the community must furnish a third of the operating cost, with another third coming from tuition (probably about $150 a year). The rest of the money will come from the state...