Word: regions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interested in India, and one sees the rather obvious necessity for some intermediate program until a center, can be established. This might consist of at least a couple of faculty members working on modern Indian history and government and also some special effort to obtain visiting lecturers on the region...
...land that it is "poisoned with U.S. salt." Under a 1944 treaty, the U.S. promised to share the Colorado for irrigation purposes, and guaranteed Mexico 1,500,000 acre-feet of water each year. Mexico built a dam, dug irrigation canals and before long brought the once-desolate Mexicali region to life. But in 1961 the water became too salty to drink, and cotton died in the fields. Under the new Wellton-Mohawk reclamation project, U.S. farmers were using irrigation water to leach out excess salt from their desert soil-and were flushing the residue back into the Colorado, whose...
...Hampshire's frozen Lake Winnipesaukee region, a tall, stiff-spined farmer in high laced boots stood before the Meredith Village Savings Bank one morning last week and shook his head slowly. "I've had so much information from so many candidates about what I should do," said 70-year-old Jesse L. Ambrose, "that my bucolic mind is utterly confused...
...drops below 0° F., but a year's snowfall has been measured at more than 70 ft. Winter winds blow a steady 80 m.p.h., with gusts hitting 135 m.p.h. Servicemen there rarely went outdoors in the winter without good reason. Indoors could be unnerving too, since the region is subject to frequent earth tremors...
...only regular link with the outside world. From Bogota, Satena takes off daily with fabrics, fertilizers, medicines and home appliances; commissaries are being set up to sell these goods at bargain prices. On return trips, the planes bring out fish, hides, rubber and dairy products. Farmers in the Caqueta region last year shipped 1,000,000 sacks of rice to market via Satena; at the village of El Refugio, fishermen who used to have no way to market their catch now fly out four tons weekly. This month Satena will put a converted PBY seaplane into service...