Word: east
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...below the eastbound presidential jet, the flat expanses of the Middle East gave way to the brown plains, the broad desert, the towering, snow-topped mountain ranges of the Indian subcontinent. And as the earth's face changed beneath the speeding plane, something of the old, old world changed imperceptibly too. In Pakistan, Afghanistan and India last week, the shapes and colors and sounds of older centuries mingled and fell around Dwight Eisenhower, as in a vast kaleidoscope, into strange patterns. Each pattern formed a new sensation, each sensation was etched with the faces of the multitudes reaching...
While the West was growing 29% in population, the Central states registered a just-average 15%, the South lagged behind the national average with 13.5%, and the East lagged even further with just under 10%. Four states actually shrank in population during 1950-58: Arkansas, 8%; West Virginia, 2%; Vermont. 1.5%; Mississippi, 1%. Most striking exceptions to the slowish growth patterns of the East and South: Delaware's population expanded no less than 40% (rapid industrial growth drew in a lot of newcomers), Florida's a boom-sized...
Vermont conditions are as follows: East Burke, Burke Mt. 2 to 6 base, 3 packed powder, skiing fair to good. All lifts operating; Shelburne, Killington Basin, 6 to 10, one new powder, poor to fair; Stowe, Mt. Mansfield, 12 to 24, 2 new powder, fair to good...
...varsity captain, Keyes made All-Ivy for the third successive year. He excelled this season despite several crippling injuries. McCall, long recognized by coach Bruce Munro as one of the best halfbacks in the East, was a standout on both offense and defense...
...Rockefeller need therefore not be accused of political opportunism. His views seem consistent, and in this your correspondent is quite correct. Rockefeller simply represents a right-wing alternative to middle-of-the-roaders like President Eisenhower and the new Nixon, at least on fundamental issues like loyalty control and East-west negotiations. Neither family background nor efficient handling of New York state problems should obscure this fact. The incidental agreement with his views on nuclear testing on the part of Dean Acheson and Harry Truman is therefore less significant than the more basic congruence of his views with those...