Word: coast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consider the development of primitive cultures, not only in the general terms of the technology and social organization of paleolithic and neolithic cultures, but also by examining a few specific societies, like the Aranda of Australia, the Hopi, the Kazakhs of Central Asia, the Haida Indians off the West Coast of Canada, the Ganda of Uganda and finally the Inca. They consider in a fairly sophisticated manner just what makes a civilization, and how the primitive forms developed...
...realm where its churning action chiefly occurs. Hungarian-born, Hollywood-based Producer Tors has roved from the Marshall Islands to the Caribbean in his own hunt for sunny weather, clear water, exotic fauna and flora. Last year he tied himself under a canoe, inspected coral reefs off the Colombian coast of South America while an Indian paddled. This week he is filming near Mexico's Coronado Islands. Soon he will scout the waters off Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti-as well as Samoa, where some World War I German cruisers are rumored to lie photogenically scuttled...
...wants to break into the lucrative transcontinental U.S. market heretofore restricted to domestic carriers. With one foot in the door through its right to fly its own international passengers across the U.S., it has also asked the Civil Aeronautics Board for the right to carry other international passengers from coast to coast. The right to make such flights, known as cabotage, has been a major argument for years among air carriers, and Qantas' request is bitterly opposed by every U.S. line. If granted, it would open domestic markets to 16 foreign lines, flying between 16 major U.S. cities, including...
Married. Marjorie Lord, 35, Comedian Danny Thomas' TV "wife"; and Randolph Hale, 44, West Coast stage producer; both for the second time; in Los Angeles...
...most talked-about literary movements of the late '50s. Britain's Angry Young Men fret about social mobility, the harsh grind of shifting class gears. The "go, go, go" men of the U.S. Beat Generation are caught in a frantic physical reverie of "a fast car, a coast to reach, and a woman at the end of the road." The question ultimately juts up: Are these self-appointed spokesmen for the 20th century young moving in a quest for meaning, or a flight from...