Word: southwesterner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some 22,000 years ago, in southwestern France, a band of Stone Age hunters camped the year round beneath a rocky overhang while hunting the locally migrating herds of reindeer on which their lives depended. They cooked the reindeer meat over hearths scooped from the ground; made clothes and leanto shelters from the skins; and from the bones and antlers cut out spear points, awls, and beads...
...China. For what is at issue is not the submission of Albania to Khrushchev but that of Peking. For the time being, Hoxha continued to denounce Khrushchev as a traitor to Marxism, while Red China's Peking Review proclaimed: "Albania will always stand like a giant holding the southwestern outpost of the Socialist camp...
Financing for Project Jarba, the area of southwestern Jordan where the group will work, is being handling by the Jordanian government, the Jordanian Red Crescent (Mohammedan counterpart of the Red Cross), and CARE. The Jordanian government had originally approached CARE to supervise the building of the villages before PBH, on the recommendation of UNRWA, became involved in the project...
Open to Argument. Arriving in California at age 17 with $80 in his pocket, Nebraska-born Sam Yorty went to the University of Southern California and Southwestern University Law School, worked at jobs ranging from auto salesman to haberdasher, passed the California bar in 1936, and that same year was elected to the California legislature. In his early political days, Yorty was a shocking-pink liberal, much in demand as a speaker for leftist causes. Since then-in the course of three terms in the state assembly and two in the U.S. House of Representatives-Yorty has changed. But even...
...Socony Mobil Oil Co. joined forces with the Simon & Schuster publishing company in a venture to reduce the U.S.'s highway heartburn: a seven-volume domestic imitation ($1 a volume) of the Guide Michelin. Last year, Mobil Travel Guides covering the Northeastern States and the South Central and Southwestern States were released. Last week Guidebooks Nos. 3 and 4 appeared, under the sign of the Flying Red Horse: Great Lakes Area and California and Nevada...