Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gold finds it somewhat harder to explain why the earth's axis is not migrating appreciably at present. He suspects that it may have been caught in a "trap." The axis tends to shift, he thinks, toward the region where glacial ice is melting fastest, moving one of the poles toward that same region. The climate there gets colder. The glaciers grow thicker. Then the axis and the pole move slowly back again...
South of the border, Peter Grace explained, lies the world's fastest growing market. "Latin America's population increase of about 2½% a year is greater than that of any other major area," he said, and the region's buying power is zooming. Example: when Sears, Roebuck opened in Mexico City, "some people thought that potential customers would be limited to the upper 5% or 10% of the city's population. Actually, the customers that Sears has developed represent a cross section of at least the upper...
...tropical along the Lower California coast. From 700 to 1,100 years ago, it was colder than now. Twenty-five hundred years ago and 4,000 years ago, it was unusually warm. Today that part of Lower California is about as dry as possible; Dr. Hubbs thinks that the region probably got more rain during both its warm and its cold spells. Thus the land may well have been able to support the large Indian population reported, to be living there by the Spaniards during the warm period 300 years...
...seemed to have been sufficiently resolved for the Chinese Communists to return both Lamas (now aged 20 and 17) to the sacred cities of Lhasa and Shigatse, where they will share spiritual and temporal power in a kind of heavenly diarchy while Tibet is being organized into "an autonomous region" of "the Chinese motherland...
...character from a Kafka novel, no fugitive from Red brainwashing. He is an artisan in the San Francisco Bay region and, until 2½ years ago, he was perfectly normal. Then he was seriously injured in an auto accident. The broken bones mended well enough, but soon he made the frightening discovery that he could not recognize people by their faces...