Word: regionality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white beard. Though at 63 he is ailing, he used to look capable of tearing a bullock apart with his hands. For the past 30 years, Ghaffar Khan has practiced and preached nonviolence. He was Gandhi's chief convert among the Moslems, and in the rugged Khyber Pass region he is still known as "the Frontier Gandhi...
...dustup promised little success for John Kennedy's crusade, since most of Kennedy's recommendations would require action by Congress. But it gave the U.S. a reminder of how fast a region can change its line once it changes its economy: Yankee New England was now openly in the lists for federal help, while the South and West, which used to yell for federal help against the East Coast octopi, now speak in the phrases of laissez-faire...
...WHEN the U.S. male catches the 8:05 to the office, he escapes from a world in which he has long ceased to be undisputed master, and into a region where he is still very much the boss. Outwardly, but only outwardly, American business has become strongly feminized. Industrial giants get down on their knees before the woman shopper, promising to love, honor and obey. The U.S. office landscape is full of wire bras, pancake makeup, and clouds of Chanel No. 5 rising from filing cabinets. Of the total U.S. labor force of 63 million, nearly one-third are women...
...newspapers, the News looked worth saving to Democrat McKinnon. He hopes to do so with the same moneymaking skills that brought him success in the San Fernando Valley. He started out there in 1935 with a shopping throwaway, shrewdly built it up into three free newspapers for the booming region's war workers. With his profits at war's end, he started the San Diego Daily Journal and radio station KSDJ, overnight made them big moneymakers, and sold them for more than $1,000,000 in 1948 when he ran for Congress for the first time. Twice elected...
...ever before," Nehru told a graduating class of air-force cadets. The army should "imbibe the spirit of invincibility and steadfastness from the noble Himalayas" . . . "If the strength of Pakistan's army increases with U.S. aid . . . this will disturb without fail the entire balance of power in this region." Nehru told some 500,000 in Calcutta that he would oppose Communism if it disturbed the peace, but that the U.S.-Pakistan reports are "uppermost in the mind of every thinking Indian." Nehru fired off another bristling note to Pakistan, the Times of India reported, "so that India...