Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and South Korea. Though he said last week that "no consideration has been given" to a Viet Nam visit, he will probably make a quick side trip to a secure U.S. air base, such as Danang, and to an aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Tonkin...
...generally unfriendly climate, Texas' liberal rump flourishes mostly along the state's industrial Gulf Coast, among its Mexican-American minority concentrated in the Rio Grande Valley and elsewhere in south Texas, and on some college campuses. As a group, it has rarely been able to wrest control of the state government from the oil, land and financial barons who have traditionally kept conservative Democrats in power. The liberals' chief foe nowadays is Governor John Connally, an old L.B.J. ally, who nonetheless has repeatedly blocked such Great Society-oriented proposals as state minimum-wage and industrial-safety laws...
...think seminaries are one of the great problems. Instead of making people into polite ministers of the Establishment, I'd try to break down the gulf between ordained clergy and other people...
...human indifference and hostility that conspired for so long against the whooping crane. She adds suspense to the story, too, as she traces the efforts of conservationists to locate the big birds' nesting regions in the Canadian far north and provide them with wintering grounds on the Texas Gulf Coast 2,500 miles away. Readable and painstakingly detailed, this is a rare book on a rare bird...
...Line-Up. In such a showdown, Nasser could count on Algeria, Syria, Iraq and Sallal's part of Yemen-all more or less socialist, Soviet-armed regimes. Feisal would have on his side Western-equipped Jordan, Bahrain, the tiny sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf, and perhaps Morocco, Tunisia and Kuwait. Non-Arab Iran, whose Shah despises Nasser, would probably aid Feisal enthusiastically. Anxious to remain neutral are Lebanon, Libya and the Sudan. But it may never come to a showdown. The meeting around a fire...