Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard will be doing well if it can wind up in the top half of the twelve-team tournament; three of the region's top mat powers, Navy, Maryland, and Syracuse, will be participating, and host Coast isn't exactly a pushover, either...
...campaign for a second term, he planned to waste little time or energy on the U.S. South, which his strategists thought might already be beyond his reach because of the civil rights issue. But there were two Southern states, the region's most populous, that Kennedy had no intention of writing off. They were Florida, with its 14 electoral votes, and Texas, with 25, and it was to these that he went on his final journeys...
...young governor, who won election in 1962 by a 398-vote margin, outlined Republician prespects in New England Characterising the region's voters as "independent," he stated that he was "convinced that in all New England states, any position can be won by a candidate of either party...
...capital, and nearby Porto-Novo, the ragged crowds carried black-draped coffins and chanted war songs as they ransacked government offices, burned cars, hauled down the green, yellow and red national flag from public buildings, and demanded Maga's ouster. Bariba tribesmen from Maga's native northern region leaped into the fray in his defense and killed two demonstrators with bows and arrows. Finally the President resigned in favor of Colonel Christophe Soglo, commander of Dahomey's 800-man army, who became head of state and promptly suspended the constitution...
Knife in the Water begins against a feebly sunlit landscape in the lake region of Poland. A bored husband and wife are driving out for a day's sailing. They stop to pick up a brash young hitchhiker, whose insolence catalyzes their own hostility-and this three-cornered thriller quickly generates force. By the time they reach pierside, the two males are abristle, eying each other like cocks in a pit. "You're no match for me, but come aboard," taunts the older man. The boy accepts: "Ah, you want to carry on the game...