Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...themselves, the French want no kings ruling over them. The last Emperor of France was tossed off the throne 86 years ago. Today unthroned royalty from other lands are a franc a dozen in the haunts of Paris' international set. The businesslike, democratic sovereigns of northern Europe frequently turn up in town without causing a ripple. But Parisians in all walks of life have been in a dither for weeks over next week's visit of Britain's Queen Elizabeth. Day laborers and priestesses of haute couture, florists and jewelers, architects and restaurateurs, waiters and street sweepers...
...parched country of northern Mexico's Chihuahua, a prairie wasteland fit for nothing but coyotes, ocelots, wolves and white-faced cattle, thrives a large oasis of green fields, spotless barns and blue-trimmed, gabled cottages. This is the colony of a stolid blond race, strangely contrasting with its dark neighbors-the home of the Mexican Mennonites...
While Southerners in recent years have become increasingly impatient of Northern reporters who write stories criticizing segregation in Dixie, one of North Carolina's most influential citizens is a sharp-tongued Yankee newspaperman who unabashedly derides discrimination in any form. His name is Harry Golden. A one-time promotion man for New York's Daily Mirror and evening Post, rumpled, roly-poly Golden, 54, has published the bimonthly Carolina Israelite (circ. 11,500) since he settled in Charlotte, N.C. 15 years...
...heart of Chicago's Fort Dearborn project, a 150-acre slum-clearance development on the main northern approach to the Loop, city planners decided to build a memorial to Atomic Physicist Enrico Fermi, who achieved the first controlled nuclear chain reaction, on a squash court under the stands of the University of Chicago's Stagg Field. When an international architectural competition was launched, 355 entrants from 25 countries submitted their designs. Last week the jury awarded first prize and $5,000 to Architect Reginald Caywood Knight, 35, of M.I.T.'s department of architecture...
...overseas expenses with counterpart pesos. In return, A.D.L. will set up 700 more coops, train a local staff for each, steady the flow of produce to market, stabilize nationwide food prices for farmers and consumers. ¶ It contracted with the Norwegian government to plan industrial development in three northern provinces ravaged in World War II. A.D.L. will survey the region's unused hydroelectric power sites and untapped mineral wealth, try to attract such U.S. industries as aluminum which need cheap power...