Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...itself, because the U.S.'s purpose is to keep out Soviet influence, which is the greatest fomenter of "turbulence and turmoil" among nations in the region...
Last summer the apparatus was dismantled and shipped to Quito, Ecuador, where space above the equator can be searched between the altitudes of 300 and 1,600 miles. This region, which cannot be photographed from Flagstaff, is considered especially favorable. If the earth has small satellites, they will probably be found cruising low over Quito...
...year-old graduate student has discovered evidence of a 1,500 year old civilization in the densely forested Montana region of Peru. Donald W. Lathrap 3G, a student working in the Department of Anthropology, led the expedition last summer for the American Museum of Natural History...
...officers and men of the Sixth Fleet know from experience that the Mediterranean lies at the heart of the most volatile, least predictable region in the world. But beyond all local questions hovers the big one: Can the Sixth Fleet survive if the Russians turn their high-flying bombers against the easily radar-spotted targets in the middle of the all but landlocked Mediterranean...
Understandably, all the areas under exploration hold high hopes for a bonanza, and in general their oil laws, dropping the oil-is-ours nationalism of the past, invite exploration. But there was a sobering reminder in the failure to find oil in Peru's Sechura region: the normal signs may all be favorable, but you never can tell until someone with plenty of money and know-how gives it a good, hard...