Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Egocentric. In the South Pole region, U.S. Navy scientists and personnel dubiously eyed the one cracked egg included in the crated supplies dropped by Air Force parachute, then discovered a penciled message: "This egg cracked before we dropped it. Air Force...
...tacitly agreed to leave Ifni to the Spaniards at the time of the 1956 declaration of independence. But Morocco, growing confident in its new nationhood, last August asked Franco to give Ifni back. The demand was part of Morocco's reassertion of its ancient claims on the Sahara region stretching from the Atlantic coast down to French Mauritania (part of French West Africa). "Every grain of the Sahara belongs to Morocco," cried bearded Si Allal el Fassi, chief of Morocco's dominant Istiqlal Party. Guerrillas of the old Moroccan Army of Liberation, no longer occupied with fighting...
Businessman La Cavera knows that Sicily has a long way to go. Sicily's per capita income is still woefully low at $175 annually (v. $470 in Italy's industrial region of Piedmont); many thousands of unemployed still eke out a bare existence, eating lumache ed erbe (snails and greens) gathered in the woods. But Sicily has hope and enterprise for the first time in. centuries. "It doesn't require miracles," says La Cavera. "All it takes is will and work, intelligence and initiative. In ten years, we'll catch up with the rest of Italy...
...forthcoming sale of Greensboro's public swimming pools," editorialized the Greensboro Daily News sadly, "symbolizes the plight of a tormented region. The torment stems from hates and fears tragically stirred by unfortunate but inevitable high court decisions. It becomes inflammatory when forces which would push too fast clash with forces unwilling to move...
...Great Sign." Born a blacksmith's son, Soulages grew up with the hunters and fishermen of his native town of Rodez in Southern France, at 14 decided to become a painter. His first loves were the Druid monuments in the region and the massive Romanesque architecture of the church at Conques. Says Soulages: "I detest the Renaissance." During his teens, Soulages delighted in sketching trees against the sky, boned up to pass the academic exams for Paris' Ecole des Beaux-Arts. But once entered, he was convinced by exhibitions of Cezanne and Picasso that academicism...