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Some have suggested that our entire continent or our nation should have been called Columbia, after Columbus. We all know that the name is derived from Amerigo Vespussi, an Italian who sailed with Columbus, and who later wrote a detailed account of his journey.
EUROPE. Describing the Continent as the cornerstone of a durable peace, Nixon stresses U.S. determination to remain in Europe: "We can no more disengage from Europe than from Alaska." But "disengage" is a relative term. A mutual reduction of forces, if the Russians agree, is one goal. Increased military efforts...
Fischer, who has had five years of experience with computers as a vice president of Mid-Continent Screw Products, finally realized that he would have to deal with the machine on its own terms. Using a computer available to his company, he dispatched punch cards to the traffic violations bureau...
Working for this active reevaluation of medieval art, the Metropolitan Museum is currently presenting an exhibition, The Year 1200, which offers a new theory of stylistic eras to the public as well as the scholarly world. With European works from 1180 to 1210 rarely seen on this continent, the museum...
Africa's march to independence has given most of the Dark Continent back to its black majority. But it is also worsening the lot of the area's most significant nonwhite minority-the Asians of East Africa. Thousands of Indian, Pakistani and Goanese immigrants, who for many decades...