Word: regional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decision, the Supreme Court upheld the ICC's decision. Said Justice William O. Douglas, for the majority: "The effect of the discriminatory rates is not only to impede established industries but to prevent the establishment of new ones, to arrest the development of a state or region, to make it difficult for an agricultural economy to evolve into an industrial...
Healey lived with the Lacandones in their remote jungles. Little by little he learned some of their secrets. The Mayan "Old Empire" of the region had fallen long ago; tropical vegetation covered its ruins. But the handful of Lacandones still worship in Mayan temples, keeping the old gods alive...
...false moves, and even the choicest young prospect is expelled from the ranks of Southern California's youthful tennis elect. Perry Jones, who runs the region's amateur tennis (as secretary of the local tennis association), demands that his protégés get good marks in conduct and in book-learning both; they may some day be on display at Forest Hills or Wimbledon. Four years ago, the school's problem child was a talented Mexican-American lad of 15 who found both discipline and schoolwork distasteful. He cut classes at high school, finally dropped...
Thirty representatives from colleges and cooperating organizations met yesterday at Cabot Hall, Radcliffe, to set up a New England regional organization of Students for Democratic Action, the newest of the nationwide progressive student organizations. Richard M. Hays '49 was elected president of the region...
Bernice Lewis, executive secretary of the Mass. Independent Voters Union, addressed the meeting which was chaired by Mary Bruchholz, Radcliffe '49. Although the New England region is to consist of chapters at campuses from Maine to Connecticut, only Harvard, Radcliffe, Smith, Mount Holyoke, and Simmons were represented yesterday...