Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until the last decade, nearly everything we know about the planets, stars, and galaxies came to us on light waves in the narrow, visible portion of the spectrum. Astronomers have likened the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum--which stretches from short-wave gamma rays at one end and the long radio waves at the other--to a tiny window looking out on the universe. Most of the revolution in modern astronomy stems from the design of instruments that have opened up new "windows" in the electromagnetic spectrum...
...flare moves through the sun's atmosphere. Ultraviolet light is a kind of thermometer, and these changes reflect temperatures varying from about 10,000 to about one million degrees centigrade. As it scans, the Harvard instrument will be recording the occurrence and spread of flares in every region. When the instrument is fixed on the center of the sun, it will provide more detailed information on how and where flares originate and move...
Cheerful Borrowing. The points of agreement announced by Egypt's Premier Ali Sabry include a federal state retaining the name of the United Arab Republic, with Cairo as its capital. All citizens would share one nationality, but each of the three regions would be self-governing and in control of its separate economy. The overall government based in Cairo would have a single President (almost certainly Nasser), a presidential council with members from each region and a bicameral legislature: a House with one member for each 60,000 citizens, and a Senate representing the regions equally without regard...
...over the new nation, thus putting a Communist neighbor right on their doorstep. Dusting off an old claim to North Borneo, the Philippines maintained that in 1878 the Sultan of Sulu had only "leased," not sold, the territory to the British. London stiffly rejected the Filipino claim to the region...
...entertainment at the White House (scenes from Brigadoon), an unusual welcome from 100,000 Washingtonians lining the streets, and three of the loveliest spring days in Washington memory. The State Department liked the intelligence and competence displayed by King Hassan throughout the sessions, his serious preoccupation with his own region of North Africa, his judicious comment that Morocco would join an Arab union headed by Egypt's Nasser only after careful study had shown such union to be "in the common good." The Washington consensus: King Hassan is a "modern reformist" in the tradition of the Shah of Iran...