Word: continente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In contrast to its Latin American research, Harvard's interest in Africa is almost as underdeveloped as the continent itself. While it should not try to specialize in African studies--especially since Boston University has recently started such a program--it should, nevertheless, offer undergraduates a chance for basic study...
International Incident. To avoid serious clashes, Britain, Argentina and Chile signed an agreement in 1949 to refrain from sending warships south of the 60th parallel. Last month a Foreign Office spokesman in London issued a warning that Britain might be forced to disregard the three-nation pact if "incidents" kept...
In the air age of today, the U.S. 1) maintains that national claims in the antarctic are matters to be settled by international-court decisions and 2) reserves the right to claim any part of the continent.*
# Russia also reserves the right to put in a claim, based on the 1820-21 voyage of Admiral Fabian von Bellingshausen, a Baltic German in the service of Czar Alexander I. Bellingshausen never set foot on the antarctic continent, but he did catch sight of some offshore islands. Soon afterwards...
Fathers & Sons. One of modern man's troubles, according to Jung, is that he has lost touch with his roots. Americans, for instance, he thinks are not yet at home in their unconscious on a continent wrested so recently from nature; this produces tension and helps account for America...