Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Khans; in Isfahan, whose fragrant splendors led the Arabs to call it "One Half of the World." The night sky flares bright in the oilfields of Abadan, where the Zoroastrians built fire temples over ducts of natural gas. A railroad is stretching out across the treacherous Dasht-i-Kavir Desert, once traversed only by spice caravans from the Orient. A giant dam now irrigates the rolling grainlands below Shush, the ancient capital of the Elamites, where Daniel had his second vision...
...rocketed to economic dominance, the Ibos upset traditional tribal relationships and displaced many local tribal elites. Moslem caliphs and emirs, who dominated the economy of the North for ages, found their power threatened by Ibo entrepeneurs. Cornered, the Hausas struck a blow for tradition on the streets of their desert-bound cities...
...Japanese and the Chinese, a slant-eyed look. Evolutionary hypothesis has traced this feature to its probable source. The predominant theory is that it developed from a mutation-a random change in the elaborate chemistry of human chromosomes, which govern man's biological evolution. For arctic and desert-dwelling people, subjected to blinding blizzards of snow or sand, the eye fold had definite survival value: it increased the eyes' protection against such hazards. Thus the trait endured...
...farmed them. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is converting its onetime cotton farm outside Phoenix, Ariz., into Litchfield Park, a planned town for 100,000. McCulloch Oil Corp. has attracted more than 2,500 settlers to its resort-and-industry town of Lake Havasu City in the sparsely inhabited Arizona desert along the Colorado River. Humble Oil's Clear Lake City, which is on 23,000 acres of oil and gas-bearing grassland near Houston, shows promise of success after suffering some fumbles at the outset. Against more difficult odds because of recent costly land acquisitions, Shipping Tycoon Daniel Ludwig...
...this made headlines-and ob scured the fact that Howard Hughes, 61, has quietly been making news of his own. Picking up properties around Las Vegas, he has, in addition to the Sands and Desert Inn, bought Alamo Airways and the Krupp ranch in Red Rock Canyon. Hughes already owned 30,000 acres of Nevada land...