Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crimson goalie Godfrey Wood collected the New England College Hockey Award for noteworthy sportsmanship and Gene Kinasewich was singled out as the East's best defensive forward. Boston College's Jack Leetch was named the region's most valuable player...
Whether or not that somehow farfetched ideal is ever achieved matters little to the region now. This New Reconstruction, unlike the older one, is itself a source of considerable self-satisfaction. Waged by the moderate business communities of the greater urban centers it offers a means to progress which the more-principle but less-monied Southern liberal forces have so far been unable to establish...
Already, moderatism and the economic interests have done a sizeable amount. The changing economy of the region has brought, along with rising productivity, increased per capita income, great increases in urban population, appreciable improvements in public education, and higher standards of health and welfare. They have, in fact, given to the average Southerner a little taste of what he thought was the grandeur of the Old South. It is in this sense that this New Reconstruction is a part of "The Eternal flame of the Confederacy." It kindles a regional pride which once more prompts the Southerner to work...
...either instituted or rejected. This would mean, in fact, that Congressmen, city councils, or state officials would probably be able to keep out the service corps if they felt strongly enough. And there is little doubt among observers here that projects aimed at changing the social character of their region would meet with insurmountable resistance from the entrenched Southern delegation in Congress...
...reduce Venezuelan dependence on declining oil reserves, the Center is attempting to add a diversified industrial hase to the national economy by developing the Guayana region of Southeastern Venezuela. A key element of the Center's project is the preparation of plans for a new industrial city, Santo Tome de Guayana. Established in July, 1961, the city may reach a population of half a million or more persons...