Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the maharajah. Never since has the price of peace been as small. In the years after independence in 1947 split the Indian subcontinent into the sovereign states of India and Pakistan, the two nations have paid with strife and bloodshed to establish their conflicting claims over the disputed region. Last week, after 15 years of bitter wrangling, Indian and Pakistani delegates finally met in the Pakistan capital of Rawalpindi to seek a solution to the Kashmir problem...
...Last Straw. Then, two months ago, the U.M.W. announced plans to close down four welfare-fund hospitals in the Hazard area. That was the last straw; among other things, a lot of Hazard's people had hospital jobs. Bands of armed men began roaming around the region...
...found it a place "of grandeur and of eloquent silence," and attracted a group of pre-beatnik sandal wearers of all sexes, who gathered evenings for drinks and folk dancing at Nepenthe, once the house of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth but now the region's most famous and almost only tavern, run by an intellectual refugee from San Francisco named Bill Fassett. Then came another brand of fugitive to Big Sur's beauty, such as retired Editor-Publisher William L. Chenery. ex-Diplomat-Journalist Nicholas Roosevelt, a cousin of Teddy, a Roman Catholic order of monks called...
...almost as fast as Bedouins pitch tents, turning out practically everything from potash byproducts on the Dead Sea to Surf detergent near Amman. Thanks to a gigantic natural hothouse in the Jordan River valley, 65 miles long and as much as ft. below sea level, Jordan is now the region's biggest exporter of vegetables. Irrigation experts are siphoning water from the Yarmuk River and tapping long-unused Roman cisterns to make 75,000 acres of desert bloom. One project had unexpected results: 5,000 hungry camels found the new grass so tasty that the army...
...Midwest, Ohio and Michigan lie directly in the path of a new snow warning, and possibly four to six inches are predicted for early today. The region has been battered for nearly a week by bitter cold, powerful winds and nearly-continuous snow; some communities already have more than 48 inches of snow on the ground...