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...fire. From its embers sprang a blaze that soon fired the summer-dry brush nearby. Volunteers came running and quickly had the burning brush under control-or so they thought until a rising wind undid their work. Soon a white mushroom of smoke hung over Cape Breton's heartland...
...summer smells of popcorn and gasoline swept across Manhattan's hectic heartland-Times Square. Behind the cool glass panes of the Pepsi-Cola United Nations Center, an underpublicized celebrity was speaking on international friendship. It was Lidiya Gromyko, the diplomat's wife, appearing on the 21st of a series of ABC broadcasts on United Nations First Ladies. The interviewer: Alma Kitchell, a lesser Mary Margaret McBride. The broadcast was conceived in the widespread, well-meaning conviction (shared by the more thoughtful teenagers, the more optimistic cocktail partygoers and UNESCO) that a thorough exchange of information is the shortest...
Died. Sir Halford John Mackinder, 86, renowned British geographer, onetime professor at the University of London, M.P. for twelve years; in London. Two of Sir Halford's half-forgotten papers on the world's "Heartland" (1904 and 1919) were seized upon by the Germans some years later and converted into the basis for Nazi theories of world conquest, eventually caused Sir Halford to be hailed as "the father of geopolitics...
...Kansas City Star, recovering from the first shutdown in its 66 years, knew just how they felt: it always does. In its Midwestern heartland the Star is much more than an institution: it is part of the bloodstream, a landmark as indigenous as the Kaw River, waving wheat, stubbled prairie, Prohibition and Republicanism...
Wealthy from Lava. In Colombia's heartland, enterprise is the key word. Unlike most of South America, Antioquia has never been feudal. Topography was against a feudal land economy. Poor but independent peasants scratched for a living in the pinched valleys and on the mountainsides...