Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Steiner, whose father died in a concentration camp, is a journalist who worked on Jean-Paul Sartre's Temps Modernes and the pro-Gaullist weekly Nouveau Candide before beginning his book. Treblinka takes its title from the death camp 50 miles northeast of Warsaw, where some 700,000 Jews were gassed, shot, hanged or beaten to death. Steiner interviewed 15 of the 40 survivors of Treblinka now living in Israel, used fictional techniques to reconstruct the life and sudden death of the in- mates. The book's high point is the revolt...
...early as 1868. The S.S. H. A. Harvey Jr. arrived from Galveston in 1893 and anchored near the west end of this plaza. In 1872 a railroad was completed to Dallas from the Gulf. The next year another railroad from the East built its terminal a few blocks northeast of this site. Rapid growth of Dallas quickly followed...
...country, near Tuy Hoa along the South China Sea, the 101st Airborne routed a Viet Cong company, killing 15 in a fierce fire fight. Guam-based B-52 bombers, newly modified to haul 60,000 Ibs. of bombs each, jackhammered a Viet Cong radio and communications center 35 miles northeast of Saigon. The big jets came in single file, each unloading its 750-lb. bombs on the same, deeply bunkered site of the radio. It has not been heard from since...
...lots of others like robin Barnes '69, who has helped make Radcliffe's ski team the best female college team in the northeast; Eleanor Thomas '69 and Ginny Storrs, '69 who have competed in national AAU swimming events; and Ginny Storrs, '69, who stars in swimming, skiing, squash, volleyball, soft-ball, and basketball, and could be another Babe Zacharias...
...scorching, scrub-covered valley in northeast Thailand, King Bhumibol Adulyadej this week will dedicate a $28.4 million dam across a tributary of the mighty Mekong River. Part of an ambitious, internationally financed effort to convert the Mekong's 2,625 miles of untamed torrent into a source of prosperity, the Nam Pong dam will not only store irrigation water for Thai farms but will provide electric power for both Thailand and neighboring Laos, part of it over jointly owned trans mission lines...