Word: regions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wild Boys. Third son of the fourth Earl of Caledon, Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander was born 52 years ago in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.* The family, Catholics in a predominantly Protestant region, lived in a rambling old stone house surrounded by a forest and park where fallow deer ran wild. Harold's father died when he was a baby, and he and his four brothers ran wild, too, returning to the house mostly for sleep...
...Tito reported heavy Partisan attacks on German communication lines through the Vardar and Ibar Valleys, main routes to Greece. Albanian and Greek Partisans also reported fresh activity against German forces. From restless, suffering France came details of the tough resistance put up by the Maquis of the Haute-Savoie region...
Measuring these skills has been largely the work of two scientists-Ophthalmologist Hedwig Stieglitz Kuhn* of Hammond, Ind., and Dr. Joseph Tiffin, Purdue psychologist. For 20 years Dr. Kuhn has studied all sorts of eyes used and misused in the vast Calumet industrial region south of Chicago. Five years ago Dr. Tiffin began to correlate visual skills and job analysis. This week, as a result of their work, the optical firm of Bausch & Lomb announced that it was offering a new visual service to industry, using a new instrument, the Ortho-Rater...
...Anglo-American Caribbean Commission ended last week at Bridgetown, Barbados.* Visiting newsmen feasted on flying fish, yams and rum, were bored. But the delegates representing U.S. and British possessions in the West Indies were enthusiastic about this bold, cooperative attempt to solve the problems of a painfully depressed region...
...Bridgetown Conference men met, talked and planned who had never seen one another before, though most of them lived in the same small region. Spark plug of the Conference, and chief U.S. delegate, was public-spirited Charles Taussig, a molasses importer and economist who has labored hard & well with the Commission. British and U.S. indifference, local antipathies must be overcome before any plans can be translated into action. But the planners were excited and hopeful. They were sketching a pattern for postwar cooperation among colonial powers...