Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drastic rise is almost uniform across the states, regardless of geography and size. In the Northeast, Pennsylvania's welfare costs have gone from $314 million in 1967 to an estimated billion dollars this year, and its welfare population has more than doubled; in Massachusetts, 3.9% of the population received help five years ago, while 8.6% get it now. In the Southwest, Texas saw its welfare rolls grow 67% in one year after a change in the laws. In the Midwest, Michigan expects to have one citizen in seven on welfare by 1972; last month Governor
...believe," wrote Harry Truman in his memoirs, "that if Dick Russell had been from Indiana or Missouri or Kentucky, he may well have been President." As it was, Richard Brevard Russell Jr. was an unreconstructed Georgian from the red-clay hamlet of Winder, 45 miles northeast of Atlanta; his one effort at the Democratic nomination, in 1952, quickly collapsed because of his unshakable racial attitudes. Russell remained in the U.S. Senate for 38 years. There he alternated between outdated parochialism and respected service in the national interest. When he died at 73 last week of the complications of chronic lung...
LIKE most wars, the one in Indochina has bred an almost casual brutality. At Mien, a small town northeast of Phnom-Penh where bitter fighting raged two months ago, West German Photographer Dieter Ludwig was present when two Cambodian patrols returned from forays into chest-high rice fields. The first patrol brought in a North Vietnamese prisoner for interrogation (above); he talked freely after the second patrol arrived waving some grisly trophies-the severed heads of other North Vietnamese troops. Some of the Cambodians marked their victory by cutting the livers out of the enemy dead...
...down as much of Cambodia's FANK (for Forces Armées Nationales Khmères) as possible. Only one-fourth of the 40,000 Communist troops in Cambodia are toying with the capital's supply routes; the rest are trying to carve out staging areas in northeast Cambodia and reconstruct supply routes into South Viet Nam's III and IV Corps areas...
...airline industry these days resembles an executive-suite version of The Matchmaker. Pan Am is flirting with Eastern Airlines and has an eye on Braniff. Northwest Orient last week won permission to take ailing Northeast for better or worse but lost the dowry it had expected. The Civil Aeronautics Board ruled that Northeast's Miami-Los Angeles route was not part of the arrangement-which consequently could fall through. Meanwhile, American and Continental were both vying for Kirk Kerkorian's Western Airlines, and American took over Trans-Caribbean, which flies between the East Coast and some Caribbean points...