Word: regions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Middle Atlantic region had the highest number of baccalaureate and doctorate degrees awarded in the nineyear span. New England was fourth, the Pacific area third, and the East North Central region second...
...time between grammar school and the start of their apprentice programs in specially devised general education courses in economics, politics, or other subjects directly related to the world of work. Such training programs would be racially integrated since they could draw upon students from all parts of the metropolitan region. Integration could be ensured by equal opportunities clauses in all training contracts...
...next step in the Cambridge Model Cities program will be the elections to the Model Cities Agency which will control the program. Last spring, the City Council guaranteed that residents of the Model Cities area--a 268-acre region just northeast of Central Square--would have a majority on the agency. The elections may be held before the first of the year...
...Biafra. Ojukwu insists that Biafra's sovereignty is not negotiable, has arrested 600 persons he suspects of plotting to bring about a compromise. For his part, Gowon does not seem to be demanding Ojukwu's removal anymore, but does persist in his plan to carve the Eastern Region into three states, only one of which would be reserved for the Ibo. Weeks overdue, an Organization of African Unity mission recently came to Lagos to offer mediation. Its usefulness is limited because Ojukwu knows that the OAU regards secession as a dangerous precedent that might be tempting to tribal...
...headed while working at Long Island's Kollsman Instrument Corp., Moskowitz and his co-workers plotted a hypothetical space flight to the star 45 Eridani, barely visible to the naked eye from earth and some 466 light-years away. Picking well-known stars in 45 Eridani's region of the sky, he fed data about their positions, distance and absolute brightness into a computer programmed to generate the appropriate star map for any point along the route of the flight...