Word: regions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writes: "This book will stimulate an awareness that the Heartland's history is neither dull nor dead, but an exciting tribute to the people of the region-a people who are a little less than the angels, but always trying to do better...
...series devoted to summarizing and displaying this diversity. The opening volume in the TIME-LIFE Library of America, out this week, is The Pacific States, covering California, Oregon and Washington. The author is Neil Morgan, a Californian who in 1963 published Westward Tilt, a much-acclaimed study of the region. TIME-LIFE'S The Pacific States contains maps, travel and nature information, museum listings. Above all, it contains an account of "the restless edge of American society"-an edge that we at TIME have often explored. In his preface, Poet-Critic Kenneth Rexroth writes: "The inhabitants of the Pacific...
...Library of America will total twelve volumes and cover all 50 states, region by region (further information is available from TIME-LIFE Books, Time & Life Building, Chicago, Ill. 60611). Consulting editor for the series is Pulitzer Prize winner Oscar Handlin, Winthrop Professor of History at Harvard. The second volume, The Heartland, written by TIME Associate Editor Robert McLaughlin, covers Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. It will be published in March, and Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, for one, is already excited about...
...fact a pretty conservative fellow. But he did not like to see little people pushed around. It was that simple with him. He didn't care what color the little people were. He held in utter contempt those political poses designed to conceal social brutalities in a region that deserved better leadership, and he didn't scare...
...Soviet Union was reinforcing its military strength along the Chinese border for possible anti-Chinese moves. The contempt with which each side now regards the other was nowhere better illustrated than along the Sino-Soviet border in Sinkiang province. There, according to a Japanese correspondent who recently visited the region, Chinese border troops insulted the "revisionists" by hauling down their trousers and flaunting their backsides at the Soviets across the frontier. The Chinese "provocation" ceased when the Russians held up a portrait of Mao Tse-tung, whose face could only suffer under such an Eastern exposure...