Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Running 200 miles south of the Amazon River, and almost parallel to it, the Transamazonian Highway project is already being billed by President Emilio G. Medici's military regime as the work of the century. Not since the feverish 1950s, when former President Juscelino Kubitschek built the city of Brasilia and had the 1,350-mile Belem-Brasilia highway carved out of the jungle, have Brazilians responded with such a display of national pride to the challenge of conquering their last natural frontier...
Countering China. Oddly enough, China's Chou, in his interview with New York Timesman James Reston, expressed a parallel concern (see THE PRESS). His government, he indicated, was worried about what they feel are Japanese aggressive designs for a Tokyo-Taipei-Seoul linkup. At one point during the interview, in fact, Reston told the Premier: "Nothing has surprised me quite as much since coming here as the vehemence of your feeling about Japan." Obviously, however, Peking's principal preoccupation is with its conflict with the Soviet Union...
China-ization. Turning away from global matters, Chou En-lai was even more interesting. He showed considerable knowledge of the U.S. A friend had told him that the blacks were making progress, and he declared himself pleased. Chou also showed a gift for the facile parallel. The Americans started guerrilla warfare, he declared at one point. "George Washington started it." He likened Vietnamization to what he called "China-ization," U.S. support for Chiang Kai-shek in his resistance to Mao Tse-tung's revolution in the late 1940s. But Chou conceded that "America has its merits. It was composed...
Road maps say that the border of Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina is a crow-flies straight line along the 35th parallel from Scaly Mountain, N.C., to Guild, Tenn. But for more than a century a rather quaint controversy has cooked over whether an 1811 surveyor made a southward error -thrown off by a forest fire and Indian harassment-and gave Tennessee and North Carolina some 300 sq. mi. of mountainous woods that actually belong to Georgia...
...Certainly not the South Koreans. To be sure, they would like firmer guarantees of U.S. support in the unlikely event that North Korea's Kim II Sung decides to move from his pinprick attacks along the 38th parallel to an all-out assault. But they will be receiving some $750 million from Washington over the next five years to modernize their 620,000-man military force-and to ease the pain of the withdrawal, possibly by 1975, of the 42,000 U.S. troops remaining on their soil...