Word: regional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...UNESCO voted $100,000 for scientific study of this region...
...Tempo swung its spotlight on red-shirted Garibaldini squads in the region of Lecce, on a "liberty brigade" in Bari, on a Verona clothes factory commissioned to make military-style berets. Then the paper brought off a small coup: it ran a letter from the grandson and namesake of the Italian liberator himself. Mourned grandson Giuseppe Garibaldi: ". . .There is no law in Italy to protect . . . the portrait and name of my grandfather . . . [from being] made to represent parties which are the very negation of Garibaldian traditions of liberty...
...avocados are as big as coconuts. But the great world port of Buenos Aires is 1,000 miles to the south, and the towering Andes have always blocked the shortcut route west through Chile to the Pacific. For three-quarters of a century, the people of the region have loudly demanded a trans-Andean railway; for more than a quarter of a century they have been building it. Last week they had it. A coca-chewing Indian had slung a sledge, a last spike had bitten into an iron-hard quebracho tie, and Salta in Argentina was linked to Antofagasta...
...convention of the New England Region of the National Student Association yesterday appointed Lawrence M. Jaffa 2Divias one of its two representatives at the State House. Jaffa will register NSA's rejection of the bill...
...conference, which will also hear a symposium on student governments to be led by Council President Edric A. Weld, Jr. '46, a southern New England spokesman is expected to call for a blanket interdict on N.S.A. political action with the judgement of disputes among schools in a region, resting at national headquarters...