Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mayor of the northern town of Nuoro has demanded their punishment, crying, in Sardinia's Latinate dialect, "Zustissia cherimm!" (We want justice!). Nearly 1,000 shepherds and hunters have joined carabinieri and police dogs in searching for the bandits' mountain hideouts in the island's northwest. In recent weeks, they have combed through almost 800 sq. mi. of rocky terrain honeycombed with gorges and grottoes...
After studying the airlines' voluminous claims and proposals, CAB Examiner Robert L. Park, 48, recommended a parceling of routes among seven applicants. They include the three Pacific veterans-Pan American, Northwest and United Air Lines-and three newcomers, including Trans World Airlines, Eastern and Western. Cargo-carrying Flying Tiger Line also got a piece of the action. Approval of the CAB's full five-member board and the President is required before Park's decision becomes final, but the $23,700-a-year examiner's 215-page recommendation gave the front runners a long lead...
...American, whose Clipper flying boats pioneered transpacific air services in the 1930s, would lose its long monopoly on U.S.-flag service to the South Pacific islands. But it would receive new lift elsewhere, including New York-to-Tokyo Great Circle flights in competition with Northwest and new services to Hawaii and the Orient from three West Coast cities. It would also get permanent permission for its recently inaugurated flights from New York to Hawaii and the Orient. Passenger stopover privileges on these flights, now limited to San Francisco and Los Angeles, could be expanded to other West Coast cities...
...Northwest, which now faces new Pan Am competition on the North Pacific route, which it once had to itself, would get a potential gold mine in fast-rising tourist traffic to Hawaii and the Orient, with direct routes from eleven cities ranging from Minneapolis to Boston...
...sunny Canary Islands, 72 miles off Africa's northwest coast, Spain has created a bustling tourists' paradise, complete with golf courses, luxury ho tels and fancy restaurants. Spain's three other territories - Ifni on the West Coast and the cities of Ceuta and Melilla on the Mediterranean - are little more than army bases; yet even there, Spain has taken pains to make friends with neigh boring Arabs, sometimes offering them jobs and free medical care...