Word: regions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ironically, the highway has bred an aggression no one expected. With the advent of modern transportation, the northeast's endemic bandit population switched from cattle rustling to highway robbery. The region's 30 holdup gangs now roar down the Friendship Highway in hot rods, pulling abreast of buses and firing shots across their bows, then relieving their passengers of cash and jewelry. Many of the bandits, according to Thai police, learned their holdup techniques by watching U.S. westerns on TV sets supplied to most villages for propaganda purposes...
...imposed on all chairmen. Wisconsin's Democratic Senator William Proxmire, mindful of the fact that nine of the Senate's 16 standing committees are chaired by Southerners, wanted to see no more than half of all chairmanships held by Senators from a single geographical region. Arizona's Democratic Representative Morris Udall thought that majority party caucuses at the beginning of each Congress should elect committee chairmen from among the three senior majority party members on each committee. Udall plainly felt that the seniority system was the root of all congressional evil. Said he: "Like...
...first giant step toward that something more is the Joint Center's cooperation with the Venezuelan government in the development of a major new city in the Guayana region of Venezuela. The first attempt in Latin America at comprehensive regional planning based on heavy industry, the Guayana project challenges the Joint Center with linking national, and local planning in confronting social, physical, and economic considerations...
...hopes for some concentration on basic research in Boston in the next few years, "though Boston would probably scream-they like intellectuals only in principle." But, Wilson says, "I think it would be good for the two universities, and in the long run it would be good for the region as well...
...geology from Princeton, took over as president after his father's death in 1941, when the company's sales were only $12.9 million. Under his aggressive direction, Morton passed its biggest competitor, International Salt, in the mid-'40s, began producing as well as marketing in every region of the country and overseas. In addition to its eleven U.S. plants, Morton has six in Canada and another eight in Latin America and the West Indies. It owns the largest salt-research laboratory in the U.S., is building a pilot plant to tap power and extract chemicals from...