Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic preferential primary. Last week Alabama rudely turned him down. Folsom won only four of the 62 counties he had won in 1955. He lost industrial Birmingham despite the support of the leaders of organized labor. He lost his own native Coffee County. He lost all of northern Alabama, the state's traditional stronghold of relative moderation. The tally against Kissin' Jim: 226,738 to 78,174, just short of three...
...Syria, Israel's northern and eastern neighbors insisted on qualifying their armistice pledge: if Israel carries out its oft-announced intention of diverting Jordan River waters to irrigate its coastal plain, they will go to war. In talking the three Arab states into joining in a flat commitment to restore the 1949 armistice conditions, Hammarskjold won timely help from Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett, who, though he did not mention the Jordan waters, told the 24th Zionist Congress in Jerusalem last week: "Israel will not precipitate any major crisis...
...people of Chile-a mixture of Basque and Catalan stock, with some blend of the original Araucanian Indians-have demonstrable courage and energy. Though outnumbered in an 1879-83 war with Peru and Bolivia, they easily grabbed the copper and nitrate riches of the rainless northern deserts, thus completed the process of making their country so long (2,600 mi.) that if it were magically moved it could serve as a land bridge from Boston to Belfast. Chileans are 90% literate and obstinately democratic, but by a quirk they have elected as their President a man who was once their...
...torrid regions of southern Europe, Asia, Africa and Central and South America. The disease has been virtually stamped out in the temperate zones (the U.S. has no more than 1,000 cases, one-third of them at the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in Carville, La. and Northern Europe only a handful...
...succeeding the late William H. Harrison. Leavey, a Texan and a West Pointer ('17) with a civil-engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic, taught military science at M.I.T. and served as chief engineer for WPA before going off to war. He commanded the troops building the U.S. base in northern Ireland, then became chief of the Mediterranean base section in North Africa before going off to the Pacific theater to become deputy Army commander of the Philippines. There he signed for the U.S. at the surrender of General Yamashita's 40,000 Japanese troops, by 1951 was back...