Word: regionality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Southeast Asia. Pakistan, hard-hit by a rice famine, asked the U.S. to set up a food bank stocked with 1.000,000 tons of wheat and rice in Pakistani territory. From it Pakistan and other countries in the region could borrow in emergencies. For a U.S. burdened by wheat and rice surpluses, the plan was attractive if it could be carried out without disrupting Southeast Asia's touchy rice economy. At State the Pak-plan was taken "under active consideration...
Though born in Madrid, far from the rugged Basque region athwart the western Pyrenees, Galindez considered himself a citizen of the short-lived autonomous Basque republic abolished by Generalissimo Francisco Franco.* As an exile in the Dominican Republic (1939-46) and the U.S., Galindez kept in touch with the Paris "government" headed by Jose de Aguirre, first and only President of the Basque republic. Aguirre himself appointed Galindez as the official Basque representative and fund raiser in the U.S. In his half-yearly statements filed with the foreign agent section of the U.S. Department of Justice, Galindez reported taking...
...last week, with no ceremonies or speeches, the trim little Albert Schweitzer Hospital opened its doors and went to work. It has 50 beds, three air-conditioned operating rooms and an "emergency entrance" designed with an eye to the fact that the only ambulance available to most of the region's poor is the Haitian burro. Water and outdoor cooking facilities are provided for outpatients coming down from the hills. Present staff consists of four doctors and a lab technician in addition to the Mellons, and all have been studying Creole in preparation for their patients. Patients are expected...
...tweak the curiosity of any red-blooded sleuth with a weakness for natural history. Is there one vast water-filled cavern system that arcs from Kentucky to Missouri under the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers? (The presence of one distinct species of blind fish in widely dispersed caves in the region implies such a linkage.) Why is Texas' Kiser Cave full of carbon dioxide? (Three airmen, equipped with oxygen tanks, almost died trying in vain to find the answer.) Do cave-dwelling bats have a burial ground to which they fly when feeling ready for death? (As many...
...British radio manufacturer to produce a cheap, durable set suitable for the bush. The result was the Saucepan Special, a battery-operated, four-tube set with a 50? saucepan as its cabinet. The sets are painted blue, the only color that does not clash with any of the region's innumerable tribal superstitions. Most important of all, they are insect-proof. Last week, with 60,000 sets in operation and an average of nine listeners per set, the Saucepan Special linked almost every Rhodesian village with the outside world...