Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Time Out. In Massillon, Ohio, City Auditor Edgar L. Lash gave an explanation of why he had turned down a minor expenditure for the local fire department: "There should be a fireman on duty 24 hours a day [and] I see no reason for an alarm clock...
...brief stops along the way he shook hands with local Democrats, accepted a batch of birthday cakes (on Monday he was 66) and traded good-natured sallies with trainside crowds. By the time he reached Galesburg, Ill., which had not been visited by a President since William McKinley stopped there in 1899, the President was drawing crowds and sniping away at the Republicans who opposed his foreign policy ("They can't see beyond their noses"). At Lincoln, Neb., in the heart of the farm belt, he got around to the first of nine formal speeches of the tour. Opposition...
From that point on, the situation deteriorated. A hot argument in French, Italian, English and Spanish raged through the corridors. Police were called. Everyone concerned, except the outraged ambassador, who refused to budge on grounds of diplomatic immunity, was hustled off to the local police station. Ambassador Tascherest, convinced that it was a deep-dyed political plot, next day lodged a diplomatic protest with Prime Minister Nehru...
...Amiable Robots. In most places Coke has blended into the local scene as if the brown-green of its bottles and the fire-brigade red of its advertising were some kind of protective coloring. In Brazil, it has become part of the language: buses are known as Coca-Colas (because the fare is nearly the price of a Coke); in British Guiana, schoolchildren get a free Coke on Empire Day; in the Middle East, Coke bottles have become accepted missiles with which to punish unjust umpires at soccer games...
...good lacrosse, played a half a game of each against Williams last Saturday before losing, 12 to 4. If Harvard plays the kind of ball it did in the second half at Williamstown, devotees of the "fastest game on two feet" will probably ace the best game of the local season tomorrow--otherwise they should spend the afternoon at Fenway Park...