Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...required only 660 well-paid (from $440 to $674 per month) railroad tugboat workers, plus a blizzard, to bring complete and even desperate confusion last week to New York City and much of the U.S. Northeast. Early in the week, tugboat-union pickets marched outside Manhattan's Grand Central Station, managed to close the New York Central Railroad. A couple of days later, the New Haven Railroad was forced to shut down. At that point, more than 100,000 commuters had been forced to find new ways of getting to work-and the snowstorm made things tougher...
...speeders. "The lesson of safety cannot be learned too early," he often said, and this year the Rotarians of Rockville, Conn. (pop. 11,000) took him at his word. Ardently backed by School Superintendent Raymond E. Ramsdell, himself a Rotarian, they financed a "pilot project" at Rockville's Northeast School that may be the nation's most feverish excursion into "safety education": driver training for first and second graders using itsy-bitsy pedal cars. Why make motorists out of moppets of six and seven? "We chose them because they fit the only cars we could buy reasonably...
Suggested by a story in TIME (April 13, 1959), Where the Boys Are describes one of the more frantic phenomena of the affluent society: the annual Spring-Ding or Florida Flip of the book-bashed, sun-starved North American undergraduate. Come Easter vacation, students from all over the Northeast and Midwest pile into anything that holds gas and roar south. In recent years, more than 20,000 of these "migratory shirkers" have settled for the two-week season in Fort Lauderdale, and there the camera finds them-soaking up sun and beer, sleeping twelve to a motel cell...
...steamy Laotian corner of Southeast Asia last week, confined at first to brief scraps and total confusion, now blossomed into the prospect of a fullblown crisis. From Premier Prince Boun Oum came a terse communique: five heavily armed battalions of Communist North Vietnamese soldiers had crossed the border into northeast Laos and had attacked the town of Nonget. It was, cried Boun Oum, nothing less than a case of "flagrant aggression"-another Communist stab along the Asian front, the cold war's broadest and busiest...
...hand-me-down ships of South America's navies. If war should occur, the U.S. Navy's sub hunters will need all the help they can get. During World War II, German U-boats sliced into the shipping lanes, even managed to cut off Brazil's northeast bulge from Rio except by heavy Allied convoy. The new danger is Soviet Russia's fleet of 450 to 500 subs, a considerable number of which have been casing South America's shorelines and harbors. Plenty of these Soviet "goblins," as they are nicknamed, have shown...