Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Magnates & Musicians. The newcomers inestimably enriched the U.S., making it the mast incredibly diverse nation on earth. Even today, 34% of the Northeast is composed of "foreign stock," a Census Bureau classification that includes those born outside the U.S. and those who have at least one parent born outside the country. More than 20% of the population of California, New York, Illinois, Michigan and 15 other states are of foreign stock. The immigrants helped to build the great cities and shift the balance of American life away from the farm. Half of the people in New York, Boston and Detroit...
Ayub Khan derided the Chinese threat to India, pointing out that a major attack from Tibet would leave the Chinese dangling at the end of a 1,700-mile supply line. If China wanted to gobble up India, he said, the thrust would come through the Northeast Frontier and Burma. Anyway, Ayub demanded, what possible use to China would it be to take on the care and feeding of 480 million undernourished Indians? Washington flatly disagreed, insisting that Red China was the main enemy of both India and Pakistan. Ayub Khan had already made an effort to test this theory...
...merging railroads, which are concentrated in the northeast and midwest, plan to take in the Erie-Lackawanna, the Boston & Maine, the Delaware & Hudson, the Reading and the Central Railroad of New Jersey. Both prospering, the roads aim not only at giving the East two competitively balanced giant rail networks (each serving precisely 115 cities of more than 50,000 population) but also at rescuing from possible oblivion the four faltering, largely commuter lines (only the Delaware & Hudson is currently profitable). Says Tuohy: "We concluded that a merger that would take care of the indigent railroads would be most constructive...
...drink from the sea, it may at least ensure that Johnson's Great Society will not be dry. As it happened, the President had the bill ready to sign during a White House "water emergency conference" to survey the immediate and long-term problems of the drought-stricken Northeast Addressing Governors, mayors and others from the region, Johnson said that the nation has "lingered too long under the impression that desalting sea water is a far-out and a far-distant goal," announced his determination "to make the great breakthrough before 1970." The Administration's target...
...outpost, which was manned by only twelve American Special Forces troops and some 400 Bahnar mountain tribesmen. Reports indicated that a Viet Cong regiment was in the area. Saigon's generals decided that Due Co could not be allowed to fall. Out of Pleiku, 40 miles to the northeast, rolled a three-mile-long column of South Vietnamese Rangers, marines, elite infantry and engineers, led by tanks and armored personnel carriers. They represented half of the country's strategic reserve. To old hands, the convoy seemed ominously reminiscent of the days before Dienbienphu, when just such relief columns...