Word: regional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bizarre coincidence, it was 50 years to the day-Nov. 28, 1929-since Commander Richard Byrd and three companions struggled across the region's perilous mountains, to complete the first flight over the South Pole in a Ford trimotor called the Floyd Bennett. Flight 901 was scheduled to be far more comfortable, cruising at 35,000 ft., well above any turbulence, descending only in spots to 6,000 ft. for a closer look at the scenery. All the while, the cabin crew kept the sightseers plied with plentiful food and drink. Lunch offered a choice of Tournedos Rossini...
...facing permanent impotence resulting from surgery for cancers in the pelvic region, diabetes, spinal cord injuries or other physical causes-and for those whose problem is psychological in origin and is not helped by therapy-two kinds of penile implants are available. In one operation, which takes about an hour, an incision is made in the penis or just behind the scrotum and a semirigid silicone rod is inserted into each of the corpora cavernosa. Another technique is to implant only one rod between the two structures. The most popular device, developed in 1972 by Urologists Michael Small and Hernan...
During her years in New York she visited Europe, the Middle East, the Soviet Union, China and India. In her first months as head of the New Delhi bureau, she has traveled through the Indian subcontinent to reacquaint herself with the region's politics and varied cultures. She has followed the election campaign of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, covered a public flogging in Rawalpindi and finally traveled to Islamabad for her appointment with danger. "It was not quite the way I had planned to spend Thanksgiving," she says of her ordeal. "But I am really in the spirit...
Ever since Christianity first reached it 1,100 years ago, the Ukraine has been strongly religious. Located southwest of Moscow, the region, with a population of 50 million, is agriculturally rich and deeply nationalist. In the 1930s Stalin all but crushed the autonomous Ukrainian Orthodox Church and in 1946 expunged Eastern-rite Roman Catholicism in favor of the more easily controlled Russian Orthodox Church. Even so, the Ukraine by official count still has 4,000 of the 11,000 Orthodox churches now open in the U.S.S.R.-only a fraction of the 53,000 churches in Russia before 1917. Protestant Ukrainians...
...miners of the Klondike, the ancient artisans obtained much of their gold by panning. They also dug shafts into the ground and even set fire to hillsides to expose the gold-bearing soil. Smelting was done in small clay crucibles. Some objects, like the breastplates made in the Calima region of southwestern Colombia, were hammered into shape on stone anvils with instruments made of iron found in meteorites. To prevent the gold from becoming brittle and breaking while it was being worked, the goldsmiths annealed it-heating it and quenching it rapidly in water. For joining different pieces, they developed...