Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With nearly two-thirds of Laos currently in Communist hands, the entire northeast has been exposed to Red subversion. Posing as peddlers, river boatmen and wandering troubadours. Communist infiltrators from Laos pass out clothing and medicine, improvise antigovernment verses on old folk songs. "Lao will be Lao," they say. "The people living in this area are Laos; those who live beyond Korat are Thais." Communism is never mentioned; instead, the Reds constantly harp on the theme that the government has wilfully neglected the northeast, promise villagers a salary of $150 a month (v. Thailand's per capita income...
...Telstar II turned out to be quite a toy. On its fourth swing around the earth it came within range of the great horn antenna at Andover, which transmitted a TV test pattern. From high in space, the satellite sent the pattern back crisp and clear. As Telstar swept northeast, it came within range of Europe, and solemn pictures of two telephone company officials went up from Andover and down to stations in England and France. During later orbits color TV programs made the Atlantic hop. Except when the satellite was at the limit of its useful range, the pictures...
...well. Such is the aim of the Northern Student Movement, a loose-knit, Yale-based fraternity of 2,200 collegians at 50 campuses, from M.I.T. to Oberlin to Swarthmore. They give several nights a week to tutoring about 3,500 Negro youngsters in cities all over the Northeast. Results have been undramatically good. In Philadelphia, a survey of 240 kids showed 50% of them doing "a little better" in school and 41% doing "much better." In Hartford, Conn., 13-year-old Pearley-Mae Sampson has hiked her average from C to B under the guidance of Trinity College Senior Henry...
...ecumenicism has to come, Southern Presbyterian conservatives prefer a face-saving union with the Reformed Church in America, a smaller, 230,210-member body concentrated in the Northeast and Midwest. Yet Moderator McCorkle is not an unyielding roadblock to unity: "Eventually I think we will get together and all of the Presbyterian families will...
...things wrong," complained Brian Sternberg, 19. "I have a tendency to arch back -and that's really bad." But at Philadelphia's Penn Relays, Sternberg arched right over the bar at 16 ft. 5 in.-a new world record. Just three days later, in Monroe, La., Northeast Louisiana State's John Pennel, 22, soared 16 ft. 6¾ in. on his first try. "I figure to clear 17 ft. before I'm through," said Pennel-but he is in no particular hurry. "I'll go at it a couple of inches at a time...