Word: southwesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundred thousand anti-Communist guerrillas were killed in recent months in southwest China (Yünnan provincial administrative council report...
...that the U.S. companies explore and produce crude oil, after which Argentina will take over the refining and distribution. Dresser will supply the oil-drilling rigs, and Atlas the management and most of the capital. They will prospect for new fields in the Neuquén area, 600 miles southwest of Buenos Aires, try to get more oil out of existing fields, and build a 400-mile pipeline at a cost of $35 million to $40 million...
...effect of Western influences on American Indian cultures in the United States. He has also served as co-ordinator of the "Comparative Study of Values in Five Cultures," a program in which a team of University scientists has analyzed Indian, Spanish-American, and English-speaking communities in the Southwest...
...there have been times when life in the playpen wasn't so pleasant. One of the latest of these spats between Massachusetts Hall and Wadsworth House--the old, yellow wood and brick building in the southwest corner of the Yard where the Bulletin's editorial offices are located--occurred in March of 1949, when Bentinck-Smith was editor of the magazine. At that time the University was still over-run with war veterans, and improved attention to the individual student, through such media as advising and tutorial, was sorely needed. In addition, a consistently losing football team and charges...
...Gestapo? In a pamphlet called "How to Capture a University," Beaty charged that "a certain powerful, non-Christian element in our population" was trying to "dominate Southern Methodist University." For one thing, the university's own Southwest Review seemed to be highly susceptible not only to anti-McCarthy authors (e.g., President Henry Wriston of Brown University) but also to B'nai B'rith, which, according to Beaty, "is sometimes referred to as the 'Jewish Gestapo...