Word: highlander
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Into the Hills. French colonial policy kept the highland Montagnards and lowland Vietnamese apart. Tribal courts were allowed to judge Montagnard morals and property disputes, while Paris encouraged the teaching of tribal languages-and French-in the highland schools. Montagnard troops fought in separate units under French officers, just as the Gurkhas and Rajputs did in Britain's Indian army...
Arms or Acquiescence. That gave rise to Fulro, a Montagnard nationalist underground movement meaning "United Front for the Liberation of the Oppressed Races." In September 1964, Fulro rebels captured five Special Forces camps in the highlands and along the Cambodian border, killed 50 Vietnamese troops, and seized the radio station at Ban Me Thuot-a highland town of 30,000 that serves as the Montagnard capital. Premier Nguyen Khanh tried to calm the Montagnards with enlightened promises of a bill of minority rights, but political instability in the capital made implementation of the new policy impossible. The Viet Cong also...
Robert Ettinger, a physics teacher at Michigan's Highland Park Junior College, is the main proponent of this modern grasp at immortality. Since 1947, he has been interested in cryogenics, the science of freezing substances at extreme temperatures. For precedents, he points out that technicians have already succeeded in reanimating lower forms of animal life. In his book The Prospects of Immortality, Ettinger proposes that humans take advantage of this example by having their bodies frozen instead of buried or cremated...
...Rumanian wife, Betty Joan Perske, as she was then named, was an only child. The parents soon divorced and Betty, who has not seen her father since she was eight, was reared by her mother. She attended New York public schools, a Tarrytown, N.Y., boarding school called Highland Manor, and graduated from New York City's Julia Richman High School. She began modeling when she was twelve, "to make a little dough," and had graced the cover of Harper's Bazaar by the time she went to Hollywood at 18. In her very first film, To Have...
...traditional view, the dark areas of Mars are considered lowlands, with bright sectors a mere mile or so higher. But Carl E. Sagan, assistant professor of Astronomy, and James B. Pollack of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, have reversed the roles of dark and light areas. And the highland, they say, are far more than a mile above "sea" level...