Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news most of Canada has been waiting for: Krupp and four other German steelmakers have joined forces with a group of Canadian and U.S. interests headed by Nova Scotia-born Cyrus Eaton. 73, to develop a giant deposit of iron ore in Quebec's Ungava Bay region...
...make their point for all the world to hear. State issued a statement that Henderson had found, in his talks with the leaders of Iraq, Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon, a unanimous "deep concern lest Syria should become a base for further threatening the independence and integrity of the region." State spread carefully publicized word that it was speeding up shipments of U.S. arms to Iraq, Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon, presumably to meet the needs of the crisis. C124 Globe-masters began trundling the first loads of recoilless antitank rifles from Greece and Libya to Jordan-nothing much...
...Warning. Natural earthquakes, said Dr. Bullen, are not ideal as tools for earth study. Their waves often start from a large region, which makes them leave fuzzy records, like the shadows cast by a bonfire. Even worse, they give no warning, so seismologists have no time to start up the expensive, sensitive instruments they use when they want to record events of special interest...
...Eliot: "It is ultimately the function of art, in imposing a credible order upon ordinary reality, and thereby eliciting some perception of an order in reality, to bring us to a condition of serenity, stillness, and reconciliation; and then leave us, as Virgil left Dante, to proceed toward a region where that guide can avail us no farther." Insofar as Eliot has always derived his theories from his practice, this is his ex post facto description of the Four Quartets, a poetic bridge between the realms of the material and the spiritual...
...rest of Nigeria gets home rule by 1960, he will probably not become independent Nigeria's first Prime Minister. Most likely to be chosen by the federal House of Representatives when it convenes next month is a leader from the more populous but less advanced Northern Region, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, currently federal Minister of Transport. Nigeria's north is Moslem, and so conservatively Moslem that its devout regard Egyptians, Turks and Pakistanis as irreverent backsliders and only Saudi Arabians as sufficiently pure in faith...