Word: easterns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Currently stationed in West Berlin as TIME'S Eastern European bureau chief, Aikman was the magazine's last staff correspondent to leave Cambodia, a few days before Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge...
Films: Center for Middle Eastern Studies--Lovers Wind, short films of oil from B.P. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Science Center...
Throughout the Great Plains, hordes of grasshoppers were on the move last week, threatening millions of acres of crops and rangeland in eastern Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. It was the worst infestation since 1958, when billions of the pests caused $60 million in losses to Colorado farmers alone. Agricultural experts were not yet able to estimate the current damage but reckoned that total losses would run into millions of dollars. Farmers reported that up to 20% of some crops had been destroyed. Said a Department of Agriculture spokesman: "The hoppers eat everything in sight. Already we're hearing...
...opportunities are wide-ranging, from Michigan State's New Delhi-based seminar on the theaters of India and Southeast Asia to Boston University's program in Eastern Europe on film animation. Brown University sponsors the greatest adventure of all: a two-month course in the Himalayas called "Exploration." Under the supervision of a university geology professor, some 30 students study Indian history and languages, geology and mountain climbing. One special test: an expedition to the summit of 22,000-ft. Mount Devistan...
...President Richard J. Ferris explained the decision. Ferris conceded that his airline's experts had been attracted by the advanced version of the European Airbus; designated the B10, it is a scaled-down, 200-passenger version of the present Airbus, four of which are already flying for Eastern Air Lines. The 767 won, said Ferris, because of its superior performance for passengers and pilots alike. Passengers, accustomed to the sardine seating in the present jumbos, will find the 767 less claustrophobic. The coach section will have seven seats abreast, aligned in a two-three-two pattern, with two aisles...