Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throne Room. Baja California's economic importance lies in the northern one-tenth of the 780-mile-long appendix, in the area between Mexicali, the capital, on the east, and Tijuana, near the Pacific coast. Cotton is king there, and Mexicali, its population nearly tripled (more than 160,000) in five years, is its prosperous throne room. It has U.S.-style real-estate developments, with hundreds of houses in the $10,000-to-$1 5,000 class. Last year 55 gins, six cottonseed-oil mills and four compresses-the world's biggest concentration of ginning facilities-swallowed...
Even more disturbing to Spanish pride were reports of restive stirrings in Melilla and Ceuta, the two cities on Morocco's Mediterranean coast that the Spanish hold and intend to hold, come what may at Ifni and in the south. Both cities are predominantly Spanish, have been ruled as part of Spain for more than three centuries. Last week the nervous Spanish garrisons' commanders had reportedly declared a state of emergency in the two cities, rounded up suspected Moroccan agitators, had hastily thrown up barbed-wire barricades along the borders facing independent Morocco...
Meeting in Los Angeles last week, regents of the University of California took exactly two minutes to kill the 42-year-old Pacific Coast Conference. Angered because the conference turned down their request to police their own athletic recruiters and paymasters and organize their own football schedules, the universities at Berkeley and Los Angeles decided to i) suffer through their penalties for past sins and 2) quit the P.C.C. on June 30, 1959. Other conference schools immediately began to talk of resigning. Faced with the probable dissolution of the P.C.C., the Tournament of Roses Committee may soon make new arrangements...
BISHOP JOHN KODWO AMISSAH, of the Cape Coast archdiocese in Ghana, was consecrated last June at the age of 35, less than eight years after he became a priest, and now serves as auxiliary to white Archbishop William Thomas Porter, 70. The archdiocese numbers 157,293 Roman Catholics, 27,158 taking instruction, and includes 82 priests (64 white, 18 Negro), with 40 parishes, three secondary schools, three teacher-training colleges, five hospitals and 329 primary schools. Bishop Amissah's thesis at St. Peter's College in Rome was on a comparison between Catholic canon law and native customs...
HUGE GAS POOL will be tapped in Utah and Arizona and piped to West Coast, where natural gas demand is racing ahead of supply. If FPC approves as expected, El Paso Natural Gas Co. will sink 1,000 wells in rich twelve-mile-square area of Utah...