Word: northeasters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people of mainland China seemed to react with pleasure to Hua's announcement. Reported TIME Correspondent Richard Bernstein, who heard the news while traveling through Nanning, a Chinese city about 100 miles northeast of the Vietnamese border: "The bearer of the good tidings was the director of the art institute, Ho Wei-ch'ing. He shouted toward us, 'Are there any Americans in that group?' 'Yes,' I answered, 'I am an American.' Ho reached out and touched me with his hand. 'I have some joyful news,' he said, and related Hua's announcement. There were handshakes all around. The feelings...
Harvard did not realize that the team they almost knocked off would go on to be the Ivy champs. "They turned out to be one of the best teams in the Northeast, and we thought they were just Columbia," Dave Eaton said earlier in the week...
Motorists enjoying the balmy Indian summer driving weather that has persisted in many parts of the U.S. have sometimes had a shock when they decided to "fill 'er up." At some service stations, especially in the Northeast, NO GAS signs hung on the unleaded fuel pumps; other signs set limits on the amount a customer could buy. Almost everywhere, meanwhile, prices have been creeping up instead of slipping back as they usually do after the peak travel season...
...industrial Northeast has long been a pillar of the Democrats' national strength. The party maintained that stronghold in last week's election, despite some important Republican victories. One issue that tilted a number of races was resentment of widespread statehouse corruption...
According to Zambian planners, the economic failure should not have occurred. As it happened, the Chinese, eager for an African foothold, had already granted a $460 million interest-free loan to Zambia and neighboring Tanzania to finance a new 1,160-mile rail link running northeast from Zambia's copper mines to Tanzania's Indian Ocean port of Dar es Salaam. The project, built by 51,000 Chinese and African laborers, was first called the Great Uhuru (Swahili for freedom) Railway, renamed Tazara (for Tanzania-Zambia Railway) and was completed in 1976. Tazara should have provided Zambia with...