Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...industrialists or oilmen have primed Muskie's campaign pump. There are in his camp a number of $10,000-and-under givers, among them Norman Cousins, who resigned last week as editor of the Saturday Review; Martin Stone, board chairman of Monogram Industries; and Sumner Redstone, president of Northeast Theater Corp. Muskie also received a boost last week with the addition of William T. King, a G.O.P. fundraiser, to his financial retinue. That was something of a coup. King, who has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in California for Nixon, Ronald Reagan and the G.O.P. since 1966, declared...
...operations, which may involve as many as 10,000 South Vietnamese troops, will start Monday according to military sources. The troops are expected to concentrate on base areas near Krek and Chup, two towns 60 miles northeast of the capital. The North Vietnamese inflicted heavy casualties on the Cambodian army near highway six last week. The South Vietnamese operation should ameliorate the Cambodian position...
...wind-driven rain slanted in from the northeast and kept building until the eye of typhoon Hester passed over Chu Lai. home of the Americal Division. At one point, the officers' handball-court roof was seen flying end over end through the air: the roof of the officers' club went piecemeal. The house of Major General Frederick J. Kroesen, the division commander, simply blew apart. In the confusion of crumbling buildings and hangars, one man died, eleven were injured and 33 helicopters were damaged beyond repair. In all, Hester wreaked more havoc on the base in 24 hours...
When the first crickets appeared in Altinho in early October, no one thought much of it. After all, they were probably attracted by new mercury vapor lamps in the main square. Besides, far worse problems bedeviled the poor farming town of 4,500 in Brazil's barren Northeast, 100 miles from Recife, most notably a searing drought that had destroyed two harvests in the past three years...
Studying the situation last week, Brazilian entomologists pointed out that crickets are controlled by toads, each of which can devour 300 cricket nymphs a night. But for four years in Brazil's Northeast, toads have been hunted for skins, which sell well in the U.S. to make purses, belts and watchbands. Without toads, the cricket population exploded. Until the two get into equilibrium again, St. Sebastian has his work...