Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going to settle the tax case today," Arthur Gates Barkley told his wife Sue before leaving their modest home in northeast Phoenix, Ariz. The case concerned $471.78 owed to the Government in back taxes. A small amount, perhaps, to argue all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, but Barkley, an unemployed truck driver, had done just that-and lost. At the airport he gave his wife a long, lingering kiss, then boarded TWA Flight 486 for Washington, a trip he had made several times before in seeking redress of his grievances...
...intensive efforts of white colleges, particularly those in the Far West and the Northeast, to recruit more blacks began to pay off- for example, the number of black students attending New England colleges more than doubled between...
...Houston, it is belief in the manifest destiny of their freewheeling metropolis. Having established Houston as the premier city of the Southwest, local businessmen are engaged in one of their brashest ventures-a multibillion-dollar development program to attract corporations from the problem-plagued urban areas of the Northeast...
...Humidity. Corporate operating expenses and living costs in Houston are well below those of the Northeast. To live on a moderate scale, according to the U.S. Labor Department, a family of four needs only $9,212 annually in Houston, compared with $11,236 in New York City. Houstonians note other benefits: cleaner surroundings and a less hectic style of living. What they fail to mention is the city's less than salubrious climate; in July and August the humidity is exceeded only by the 100° temperatures. Politically, Houston's conservatism could irritate some younger executives...
Though Sihanouk has made no move to leave Peking and set up a rival government in Cambodia's jungles, no fewer than ten Communist documents captured in recent days speak of plans for a pro-Sihanouk "war of liberation" in the northeast. French plantation managers report that Communists are recruiting some plantation workers and arming civilians. Still, allied units have yet to encounter any "guerrillas" in Cambodia. As Sirik Matak told TIME'S Kraar: "There are no signs of a civil war in Cambodia, no signs at all." There is some question, besides, about the genuine enthusiasm...