Word: regions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FIRST OIL PIPELINE to California is starting to carry crude from Four Corners region, where Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah meet. The 16-in. line, which runs 750 miles, will pump up to 70,000 bbl. per day, will ease oil deficiency on West Coast and spur exploration for new sources in Four Corners area...
...going out for a tour of Syria's largest city (pop. nearly 500,000). He climbed into a black sedan driven by Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, the man he has picked for his proconsul in Syria-now known as the United Arab Republic's "Northern Region." Serraj drove him to the airport, where Nasser's private airplane waited.' Under cover of darkness and secrecy, the plane headed southwest past Israel's intervening airspace, and arrived safely back in Cairo...
...year-old, waterpipe-smoking Premier, Sami Solh. "O Chamoun, Lebanon must join the Arab Union!" chanted thousands of Lebanese last week in Damascus, as Nasser beamed down from his balcony. Replied Nasser: "As I see my brothers from sister Lebanon standing side by side with their brothers from the region of Syria and the region of Egypt, I feel I am witnessing the return of matters to their natural course. The artificial boundaries that have been put up between Arab countries by the imperialists cannot estrange...
...first election since their country became wholly independent in 1956. Among the sophisticated Arabs of Khartoum, the balloting went off without a hitch. But in the western deserts, election officials in jouncing jeeps had to chase down camel-riding nomads to collect their ballots. In the Nuba region, voter identification was complicated by the local habit of naming all eldest sons Cuckoo. Several precincts in the eastern mountains reported that voters were showing up with entirely different names from those under which they registered, because the local practice is always to change names after the annual religious wrestling matches...
...School Lie. Leonhard finally came of age in what was surely the world's weirdest school. Even its name was a lie. The No. 101 Technical School for Agricultural Economy at Kushnarenkovo in the Ural region was not what it seemed to be-the boys would never cheer for Good Old Ag. Tech. It was a front name for a Comintern school, training foreign Communists to take over in their old homelands when the Russians won the war. The first odd thing about Tom Red's schooldays was that the hero had to change his name (he chose...