Word: northeasters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...natural gas supplies from areas with a surplus to those where there is a shortage. Just twelve hours after the ink was dry on the bill, the first gas started flowing from the Pacific Northwest through a series of connections to Texas and then on to the energy-starved Northeast...
National weather experts made it official last week: January was the coldest month in the Middle West and Northeast since the Federal Government began collecting such statistics in 1870. Though temperatures moderated during the week, forecasters dashed hopes that the winter had spent its fury. They detected another cold air mass poised to strike the East Coast. TIME correspondents took a closer look at three widely separated areas in which the topsy-turvy winter has created contrasting effects. New York's Marion Knox examined snow-buried Buffalo, Atlanta's Rudolph Rauch checked the frostbitten citrus groves of central...
President Jimmy Carter could not have left his home state at a better time. The Chattahoochee River in northeast Georgia was choked with invading ice. Studying the strange landscape, Mountaineer Lanier Chambers declared: "It is so cold, my imagination is frozen." The Georgia Power Co. instituted 30-to 60-minute blackouts throughout the state. In Atlanta, which dipped to 1°, patrons wore their overcoats while dining at the posh Peachtree Plaza Hotel...
...rebuilt with government aid, told McWhirter: "There was enough left over from the compensation to build the big Buddha image at the temple. Officials seem more polite. This village is ready to be progovernment." Heavily guarded government teams are also hacking out roads through the forested valleys of the northeast to bring goods from remote villages to market-and allow troops easy access for anti-guerrilla raids. In one of the heaviest such engagements, a Thai-Malaysian force of 4,000 troops-the first cooperative effort of this kind-is waging a joint campaign backed by heavy air and artillery...
PUERTO RICANS feel very differently and ambiguously about the United States. After years of association, many know the U.S. from a tour in the Armed Forces or service in minimum-wage industries in the Northeast. Everyone has part of his family living there. And the tie with the United States has brought branches of every imaginable institution into the island: there are subsidiaries of the Rotary Club, of the pentecostal churches, of J.C. Penney's. The island has gotten just enough of the benefits of the American way of life to feel jealous of it and superior to the rest...