Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Papuan inhabitants a chance to opt for independence. But as Bung (Brother) Karno arrived last week for his first visit, there was something about the way he and his Indonesian troops strutted through the streets of Hollandia (renamed Kotabaru) that made many wonder if he would ever permit the region to be more than just Indonesia's province of West Irian...
Perhaps it requires a death like Moore's to reawaken the deadened moral nerve of this nation. Certainly abstractions have failed to convey what is happening in the South. It may be that only isolated episodes, like lynchings and murders, can remind us of the horror of this changing region...
...defense contracts from the Midwest to the West. In search of ways to help smooth out the bigger economic bumps, McNamara ordered a study of the factors that account for the heavy concentration of Pentagon research and development contracts in a few university-rich areas-such as the Boston region, drawing upon Harvard and M.I.T., and the Southern California complex, centering around Caltech and U.C.L.A. Assigned to the Stanford Research Institute, the study is potentially important not only because R. & D. is a big business in itself, but also because the area that gets the R. & D. contract often gets...
...breakdown of slavery (formally abolished in 1888), and cheerfully argues that a major reason for Brazil's immense vitality is miscegenation. "Perhaps in no other country," writes Freyre, "is it possible to rise so quickly from one social class to another, from one race to another, from one region to another...
Such an institution, which has "some form of contact with nearly every industry, nearly every level of government, nearly every person in its region," present unique administrative problems, Kerr said...