Word: regionality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relation of technological innovation to the metropolitan region, comparative analysis, both historical and contemporary of cities, and the application of research strategies to transportation problems are all areas of interest to the Center, according to Meyerson, as well as the question of methods of public and private control over urban change, problems of urbanization in developing countries, and investigations of social values and the community...
...group will continue the work of a similar expedition which last summer uncovered two "occupation levels" of Stone Age hunters who inhabited the region 20 and 22 thousand years ago respectively, Movius estimates that it will take five or six more summers to reach the base of the remaining 30 feet of successive occupations...
Periodically over the centuries, the area known as the Borinage gives a twitch of excruciating pain, and all Belgium suffers. Death has always been close by in that flat, depressing southern region...
Accepting Liabilities. In Brussels. Socialist and Communi&t Deputies made a tumultuous attack on the coalition Catholic-Liberal government. Cried one: "You not only condemn to death the 18,000 Borinage miners but the entire region-its shopkeepers, all other industries, everyone who is dependent on them." Catholic Deputy Fred-Bertrand, a former miner, shouted in reply: "Do you think you'll attract foreign companies and new investment by creating this revolution?" A government minister promised "replacement jobs" for the miners but was hooted down when unable to give any details. Premier Gaston Eyskens refused to consider nationalizing...
Chief Obafemi Awolowo, 49, of the powerful Yoruba tribe, dedicated, teetotaling Prime Minister of the Western Region of Nigeria who began as a barrister, has gradually emerged as a statesman of integrity in a land where charges of corruption are the political order of the day. His fellow Prime Minister to the more populous but primitive north, the Sardauna of Sokoto, is a haughty Moslem nobleman out of another century. Nigeria's other regional Prime Minister, the demagogic, U.S.-educated Nnamdi ["Zik"] Azikiwe of the Ibo tribe to the east, lives under a cloud as a result...