Word: regions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years since. Black has left no doubt whatever about his position on civil liberties. In one of his earlier opinions, he wrote a scathing denunciation of Florida practices in extracting confessions from Negroes. Much of the South sees Black as a traitor to his native region for his stand against segregation. In constitutional questions arising from investigations of domestic Communism, the onetime Senate investigator has refused to accept any cold war modifications on civil liberties. Always articulate in his opinions, Black has become the acknowledged leader of the Supreme Court's liberal bloc. The Bill of Rights is Black...
Crane's Beach on the North Shore is only minutes from Harvard sq. The many fine beach areas in the Cape Cod region are within an hour's driving time from Cambridge...
What is important about the Jungle of Love, a craggy mountain region on the ill-defined Thai-Cambodian border, is that it houses an 800-year-old Hindu temple. Called Phra Viharn by Thais and Preah Vihear by Cambodians, it lies in ruins at the end of a long, rutted road deep in the jungle. Because past treaties involving the area are vague, the two countries have long and passionately disputed ownership (although both are predominantly Buddhist). Finally, in 1959, Cambodia asked the International Court of Justice in The Hague to render a judgment...
...region that had subsisted on corn and cotton, Lone Star was a godsend. "I grew up in this town," said one Daingerfield resident. "I can remember when maybe one or two mule-drawn wagons would come to town a day. We were dead before E. B. Germany and Lone Star." Along with booming payrolls. Lone Star sponsored baton-twirling classes for girls, baseball clinics for boys, professional workshops for teachers and ministers. Employees were married and buried from a chapel at the plant...
...emergency was declared in the three provinces most affected; 4.000 fresh troops and militiamen were sent in to reinforce the local authorities. But the cops were careful to avoid excessive trouble. Avoiding a showdown. Franco sent a trusted Cabinet aide, burly Sindicatos Boss Jose Solis Ruiz, to the region to calm the striking workers. It worked, but only after Solis talked himself hoarse for two weeks in speeches and conferences with worker councils-and only after promising to grant many of the wage demands. For Franco Spain, this was extraordinary; Spanish workers, breaking the regime's sternest decree...