Word: regions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...organize the trip, TIME Correspondent Friedel Ungeheuer, who went along, learned enough on his own by moving around the country, talking with Biafrans and Europeans and interviewing Biafra's leader, Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, to reach a few surprising conclusions. He found that the Ibo-the region's majority tribe-are not only vigorously and successfully resisting invading federal Nigerian troops, but are maintaining high morale and a surprising amount of normalcy while doing...
...enduring value of the pieces assembled are that they reflect a culture that drew no distinction between major and minor arts. Anything from a horse bit to a box top was seen as an object of beauty, while each bronze affirmed in subtle ways the flavor of its region. Where Sparta reigned, simplicity and self-discipline are powerfully reflected in the lancet-eyed Laconian warrior whose body and thoughts alike are swathed in a foreboding cloak...
Since the smallpox virus has no natural reservoir except in man, the disease can be wiped out from a large region, as it has been in North America and most of Europe, once the cycle of infection is broken by making 85% or more of the population immune. Until now, the cycle of infection has been spinning virtually unchecked in West Africa, killing 25% of the virus' victims and hideously disfiguring or blinding as many more. Measles, which carried a death rate of less than one-tenth of 1% in the U.S. even before vaccinations began, kills from...
...sound of the N. & W.'s main line through the coal fields. He attended college in the town where the N. & W. has its headquarters. Even after he was graduated from Harvard Law School and set up a practice in Washington, Saunders retained his sentimental attachment to the region. In 1939, he and his wife Dorothy jumped at the chance to return to Roanoke when Saunders was offered a job in the legal department of the N. & W. There he made himself so valuable that he moved up steadily until he was finally named president in 1958. In that...
...appreciation of good wines is one of the arts of civilization, and always has been. We will be sampling wines from the Bordeaux region, as well as wines from California made from the same grapes. By careful comparison, we will learn what the differences are between clarets of different kinds and qualities. Course fee five dollars...