Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...east as Reno, rain sent the peaceful Truckee River on a binge, cut the city in half. Undaunted tourists kept yanking undaunted one-arm bandits in Harolds Club, joked about floating crap games. Though no lives were lost, the Reno region suffered $5,000,000 in damages. In southwest Oregon, the heaviest rains in 78 years brought floods that killed twelve people and flung huge fir logs off cliffs like harpoons...
Then the Russians moved northwest to another disputed ground, Kashmir. To them, the rich and populous region is not in dispute at all: since the other claimant is Pakistan, a sturdy ally of the U.S., the Russians are all for India's claims (which India stubbornly refuses to submit to U.N. plebiscite). After two vigorous days amid Kashmir's storied pleasures, the two returned from what Bulganin referred to as "this northern part of India." Pakistan had formally protested their visit to Kashmir. Huffed Khrushchev: "No other power in the past has dared to tell us what...
...amount spent in the last five years alone for newspapers by the small (5 ft. 3 in.), publicity-shy New Yorker. Like his last two buys, the Portland Oregonian and the St. Louis Globe-Democrat (TIME, April 4), the purchase of the News put Newhouse into a new region of the U.S. It also put him right behind the Hearst and Scripps-Howard chains, with an empire of 13 newspapers (total circ. 3,576,320) worth an estimated $70 million. The News was sold by its five trustees, heirs of the late Publisher Victor Henry Hanson, who, over 36 years...
Visiting experts are also a great source of information about a region. Last year in the Middle East program, for example, a labor delegation from Iran passed through Cambridge, and gave the students the first non-governmental view of the country they had seen. "It was refreshing to get their viewpoint," recalls Richard N. Frye, associate professor of the Middle East Program. "They gave us an impression of the country vastly different from the usual reports...
...sense, the whole idea of regional studies which cut across many disciplines is an attempt to get away from usual reports and one-sided knowledge. Graduates of the program may go into the government, private business, or further academic training, but whatever field they finally enter, they should bring to their work a broad understanding of an entire region--not just a century, or a country, or a king...