Word: heartlands
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Proof is spread all over the pages of his new novel, the consistently funny story of the heartland rube who went to New York dressed in an inferiority complex and won through to the jackpot. Midwesterner Jack Jordan has written a book-club selection in his spare time while working at the old family foundry (Bissell himself had worked at the old family pajama factory). When a couple of brash young producers summon him to New York and ask him to turn the book into a play, he feels like an impostor. But with the help of a shrewd director...
Aboard President Eisenhower's personal Constellation Columbine, Saudi Arabia's brown-robed King Saud began his journey back to the Middle East. Moslem monarch of the hour, he bore all the prestige of the ruler of Islam's heartland and of the world's richest oil lands, reinforced by a resplendent reception in Washington. After regal stops in Spain and North Africa, he wall head toward Nasser's Cairo. There the two leaders of the Arab world will meet-with their allies President Kuwatly of Syria and King Hussein of Jordan-to hear of Saud...
...Doren tradition of self-reliance crossed the Atlantic in the 1650s when Pieter van Doom arrived in Peter Stuyvesant's Manhattan from Gravezande, Holland. The family grew up in the U.S. heartland, on the farmlands of Illinois. Charles Lucius Van Doren was a kindly, industrious country doctor and farmer. His wife, Eudora A. Butz, was a stern taskmaster who at the age of ten carried the mail on horseback across the prairies. Married in 1883, they raised a family of five boys. "We lived together in a busy tumult," wrote Carl, the oldest of those sons, in his autobiography...
...continent's center is a vast and featureless plateau 750 miles across and two miles high. And here, protruding into space, is the heartland of the antarctic's terror, the vat where much of its wrath and weather is brewed. Over this plateau sweep winds from distant seas, and here snow crystals have fallen like eider down, layer on layer, millennium on millennium. The meridians of the earth converge upon this great snow desert, closing in to pinpoint that half mystical, half mythical objective of adventurers, scientists and explorers, the South Pole. At the Pole the temperature...
This area has major geopolitical importance not only because of the oil-rich eastern lands, but also for its major role in history as a principal western approach to the heartland of Europe...