Word: regions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mile rail line eastward to Dar es Salaam. The railway would cost a staggering $200 million or so, but Nyerere seems as interested in pushing it through as is Kaunda. It would turn Dar es Salaam into East Africa's busiest port, open up a massive, uninhabited southern region that is known to contain valuable coal deposits. Besides, Nyerere would like to break his own dependence on the East African Common Market, now dominated by Kenya and Uganda. "We want to build this railway line," said Kaunda. "We do not only want to build it, we have decided...
...never been able to stand milk since") and how, when he was a reporter on the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, he had helped out in his spare time in the vineyards and chicken houses on his mother's 50-acre ranch in the Napa Valley region of California. Now, on his suburban acreage in Westchester County, he is trying his not-necessarily-so-green thumb on apples (nine on the bough this year) and raspberries (a nice spoonful...
...images were hardly unappreciated: in one good year, he made $100,000 from his works. The burly artist bought a 17th century house in East Hampton, L.I., settled in the painterly light that has drawn artists to the region for 150 years. An impressive figure even in later life, he would daily stalk across the dunes in a 200-year-old Chinese robe, fling it off, and plunge into the surf. Occasionally, Hassam even departed from pragmatism, painting such fantasies as Adam and Eve Walking Out on Montauk Point in Early Spring. Whereas Monet in his old age quietly painted...
Last April the Elephant Valley was deep, dark Viet Cong country. Paths and paddies were deserted by day; the rifles of Red snipers dominated the night. When Clement's battalion of marines moved in, they found the 20,000 inhabitants of the 100-sq.-mi. region sullen and closemouthed. Trade was at a standstill, bridges across the wild mountain streams had been blown, and no villager felt safe from Viet Cong terror. By applying intelligent compassion and tough soldiering, Clement has since converted most of the Elephant Valley from numbness to normality. "Someone has to win this war," says...
...Soviet economy, unemployment has become particularly bothersome in Lithuania, Moldavia, Byelorussia, Siberia and in the Central Asiatic Republics. Partly to blame is that old Western bugaboo, automation. When, for instance, Red planners automated the lime and asphalt plants of Leninsk in Tula province, they put half the region's unskilled laborers out of work. The Soviet Union also has a rising number of young people-many of them school dropouts-who are unable to find work because they lack the skills required by modern industry. Even technical skill is not always a guarantee of a job: 254 graduates...