Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Death's Door. Fastest-growing U.S. area for skindiving is the Northeast, despite water cloudy and cold enough to dismay a mackerel. For warmth, New Englanders may pull on foam-rubber "wet" suits,* will even chip a hole through ice to get at water. In the landlocked Midwest, divers gang together for long trips to Death's Door-a channel off a Wisconsin peninsula jutting into Lake Michigan, where, tucked among hidden reefs, lie more than 200 ships dating back to the 17th century. In parched New Mexico, a club called the Dusty Divers makes weekend round trips...
Married. Princess Padmavati Raje, 19, daughter of western India's Maharaja Scindia of Gwalior; and Maharaja Kirit Bikram of Tripura, 23, powerless (since India's independence in 1947) chief of a small, warrior-caste state in northeast India; in a Bombay ceremony that was preceded by a two-mile-long procession of brass bands, clowns, torch bearers and lancemen, was attended by a brigade of India's richest princes, saw an exchange of gifts valued at some...
...call their town Phoenix because, he said, they would raise there a new civilization upon the ruins of the old. The new civilization did not win a real chance of success until after President Theodore Roosevelt pushed through his Reclamation Act of 1902. His first major project: Roosevelt Dam, northeast of Phoenix, which backed up enough water to support a citrus and truck-garden industry in Phoenix' sundrenched Salt River Valley...
...load factor last month was 79% eastbound, 76% westbound. Actually, Pan Am's jet travel was up 57% in total passengers over a year ago partly because it has upped the number of jets in service to 23. On the in-season New York-to-Florida runs, National, Northeast and Eastern jets are all running up to 90% capacity...
...Philadelphia Philco employee, Rodgers came out of Northeast High School with an average of 35 points per game, graduated in 1958 from home-town Temple University as a near-unanimous All-America. With the Warriors, Rodgers regularly holds lonely practice sessions to perfect his passing techniques. "I'll put a chair in a certain place," he says, "and pretend it's Bill Russell of the Celtics, and that I'll have to fake him a little to get the ball to Wilt. I dribble at the chair like it's Russell. I can practically...