Word: northeasterner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frustration of displaced workers and the cool, four-day-week visions of scientists, labor leaders and industrialists. The machines alone made exciting viewing: contraptions that land airplanes automatically, spot cancerous tissue through the microscope, run vast chemical plants, tell at a glance the position of every plane over the northeastern U.S. plus their speed, altitude and identity. Some of the automatons create jobs and whole industries-but also the immediate problem of displaced workmen and the long-run challenge of how the U.S. can use a new leisure. The CBS show struck a hopeful balance on whether automation is "weal...
Ever since Boer President "Oom Paul" Kruger first set them up on the slopes of the Wolkberg in 1883, the Mamatola tribesmen of the northeastern Transvaal have cultivated their sunny and windswept land in peace and contentment. Last week a convoy of 23 trucks dispatched by South Africa's Native Affairs Minister Hendrik Verwoerd rumbled up the mountain to carry the 1,200-odd Mamatola off to a new home, Metz, in a dank and inhospitable valley 30 miles to the east. The stated reason: the Mamatola's outmoded farming methods were ruining the land...
...nephew. Prince Souvanna Phouma, later took over as Premier, has since been doing his best to set up a stable, non-Communist government. His task has been difficult, first because everything is difficult in Laos, second because the country's Communist-led Pathet Lao forces (which occupy two northeastern provinces) are bossed by his own half brother Prince Souphanouvong...
Three men from the Boston University Terriers, two from Boston College, two from Northeastern, and one apiece from Tufts, Brandeis, and M.I.T. round out the squad...
...would head. The Syrians hanker to see Jordan joined in a Greater Syria. The Saudis lay claim to Jordan's Aqaba area, now being evacuated by the last of the British hussars. The Iraqis, poising 10,000 picked troops at H3, the pipeline pumping station just over the northeastern border, aim to see Jordan merge with its fellow Hashemite kingdom if it merges with anybody. And the Israelis, with the best army and most troublesome border of all the neighbors, stand ready, at the first sound of breaking-up noises from the east, to advance to the Jordan River...