Word: regionality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Envisioned as an agency for collective security, the UN is now, at least in its political functions, little more than a propaganda forum where each side bids for the weight of world opinion. The free world now seeks, and should continue seek, its security through a whole series of regional organization such as NATO and ANZUS, each providing for the national interests of the states in its region more effectively than the present UN Could possible...
Noting carefully the time of arrival of the air waves at different stations, Dr. Miyake drew arcs representing where each wave was at the same instant. The center of the arcs should be the position of the explosion. This turned out, correctly, to be the Bikini region in the central Pacific. Further confirmation: nine days after the May 5 explosion, heavy radioactive rain fell on Japan. After studying the charts of high-altitude winds, Dr. Miyake decided that the radioactive dust had traveled west to the Philippines, then up the China coast to Formosa and Japan, where rain brought...
...Salisbury got an eyewitness view of how little Russia has actually changed in a 12,000-mile trip that he made through the Soviet North and eastern Siberia. "It was," says Salisbury, "probably the most extensive survey of this . . . region by an American since the 1880s." That part of Russia, said he, is "an empire-within-an-empire, the slave state of prison labor and forced-residence workers" that extends thousands of miles and is ruled by the MVD. "All life in those regions is incredibly harsh and grim." Salisbury saw hundreds of labor gangs of men and women going...
Roger Ravel '56, treasurer of the New England Region of the National Student Association, last night predicted that scores of University students would be affected by the ruling of the International Air Transport Association...
McMillan especially condemns the system under which his own institution was run. No Negro has a real voice in the administration of State College. It is governed by a six man, all-white board of trustees, drawn from business and professional men of the Orangeburg region. The board is all-powerful, but it leaves routine decisions to the college president, Benner C. Turner. When Turner was selected in 1950, the trustees asked each candidate two questions...