Word: northeasterner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conference, based at the Business School, is sponsored by the business schools at Northeastern, Boston College, M.I.T., Harvard, and Boston University...
High and dry on the sun-blasted northeastern horn of Africa hangs a backward, poverty-stricken strip of land inhabited by leopards, crocodiles and some 1,300,000 camel-and goat-herding nomads. Back in the19th century after the British, French and Italians helped themselves in imperial fashion to slices of the coast bordering Ethiopia, this desert patch was known as Italian Somaliland. In Mussolini's heyday it became a bridgehead for his conquest of Italian East Africa. Now after years of somnolence, it is back in the news-once again as a trouble spot. The Italians, who kept...
...northeastern oilfield region of Kirkuk last week, street fighting broke out between Kurds and Turks, with the Communists mixing in; about 20 were killed. Kassem remains emotionally antiWestern, but seems belatedly learning to suspect Communists. After the Kirkuk flare-up he warned the Communists that it was the government's job, and no one else's, to determine who are "enemies of the people," and "we will settle accounts with all who attack the liberty of the people...
...that he would risk his life if he undertook any more strenuous activity. Waving them aside. Ole Earl resolutely took off in his DC-3 on a grueling Fourth of July speaking tour of four back-bayou towns, topped off with a "Miss Louisiana" beauty contest in the far northeastern corner of the state. Ole Earl was off and careening on his campaign trail for a fourth round in the Statehouse. The trail's end was not in sight, but Earl Long was set squarely on a tragic collision course, dragging the tottering Long dynasty and Louisiana behind...
...ideas that has been carefully fostered during its 250 years as a U.S. intellectual headquarters, and the opportunity for pleasant living. The Atlantic Ocean is a few miles away. The mountains are only a short drive. Near by are many science-strong schools: Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts, Northeastern and Boston University. Says M.I.T.'s Engineering Dean Gordon Brown: "To have a place where research-based companies can grow up, you must have a special climate where people are interested in ideas, where they meet to discuss them. These companies are started by people with an intellectual, venturesome...