Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nothing, it seems, can solve the financial woes of railroads in the Northeast. Six lines* that control half the trackage in the 15-state area are operating in bankruptcy and do not have to pay taxes or meet interest or amortization payments on mortgage loans. Even so, they have continued to lose money at a staggering rate-$222 million for the Penn Central alone last year. The lines have survived only by deferring maintenance that they know is essential, a course that can logically end only in the lines' physically falling apart. Last week two branches of the Federal...
...sure, the term "crisis" has been bandied about all too broadly in discussing urban ills. Some cities, including San Francisco, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Denver and Portland, have not really been in a crisis. But of those that were-mostly in the Northeast and Midwest - few if any are really any more livable now than when Nixon assumed office. The President could justly claim that the cities at least have not fallen apart and that there are significant improvements here and there, with a true test still ahead as the effects of Nixon's budget and revenue sharing work themselves...
...party machinery of the Irish Republic's ruling Fianna Fáil (Soldiers of Destiny) had rarely run more smoothly. In northeast Dublin, its workers delivered scores of voters to polling places in a shuttle of buses. In the Rialto district, they assembled strange processions of the elderly and infirm who looked as if they could scarcely make it to the nearest park bench, much less to the ballot box. There was even a Spanish nun, a fervent supporter of Prime Minister Jack Lynch, who appeared at one Dublin polling place to vote for the local Fianna...
...remain outside the union power structure. All of the officials and most of the business agents are men. The women point out that union meetings are often held after work when they must be home cooking dinner. They add that, with the exception of the Boston section of the Northeast Department, officials and business agents are appointed--by other men. One Boston business agent has a four-syllable explanation of this: "Ability...
...fated jet was Flight 4114, which left Benghazi on the regular run to Cairo. Flying along the Mediterranean coast, the plane turned south at El Alamein, then northeast at El Fayoum for the approach to Cairo. Inexplicably, Captain Bourges missed Cairo by a wide margin; the only reasonable explanation for his error was heavy cloud conditions over the area that afternoon that might have affected his navigational equipment...