Word: continentals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the golden autumn of the 14th year after World War II, all Europe was humming with a new prosperity. In Britain, where voters had just emphatically endorsed Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's claim that they never had been so well off, the government this week planned to improve...
In May 1958, as the final months of the International Geophysical Year drew near, President Eisenhower sent to eleven other nations* an invitation that was also a warning. Along with the U.S., the eleven had all sponsored IGY research projects in the Antarctic, and seven of them had longstanding territorial...
One reason for the rare unanimity was general awareness that Antarctic territorial claims have become hopelessly muddled: three out of the four active Soviet IGY bases are in Australian-claimed territory, and the peninsula claimed by the British under the name Graham Land is O'Higgins Land to the...
For a prosperous half-century, tiny Belgium successfully ruled the vast, mineral-rich Congo with what seemed to be the most foolproof of colonial formulas: steady economic progress, combined with almost no political progress at all. But as the virus of nationalism spread across Africa and the newly autonomous republics...
The book publisher sat in his spacious home in Norman, Okla. and swirled a glass of brandy. "There are no more hicks in America," said Savoie Lottinville, 52, head of the University of Oklahoma Press. "The cultural face of the continent has changed from concentration in New York and San...