Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keep it up, Mike," radioed Knight. "Let's keep it up." But he heard no more from the X-15. Nobody saw it slam into the sparse Mojave Desert sagebrush 60 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Adams was aboard-the first man to die in an X-15. He did not-or could not-use the ejection device that might have parachuted him to safety...
Other Trails. On the West Coast, California's Governor Ronald Reagan turned an invitation to the U.S.C.-Oregon State football game into an excuse for two days of non-campaigning in the Pacific Northwest. He showed up in Seattle for a G.O.P. fund-raising lunch, attended a party dinner in Portland that evening, rode horseback in the Veterans' Day Parade in Albany, Ore., the following day. Reagan, of course, still bills himself as a noncandidate, but his protestations of late have rung increasingly hollow...
...Americans evicted Ben Sue's 3,500 peasants at gunpoint last January and demolished their homes in an effort to clear the area of guerrillas. He flew in with the G.I.s to Ben Sue, on the edge of the Viet Cong's Iron Triangle stronghold 30 miles northwest of Saigon; then he followed the uprooted villagers to a bleak camp behind barbed wire. He paints a picture of unremitting misery inspired by wanton cruelty-but he elects to omit details that would have colored it differently. For example, he has admitted to knowing that Propagandist Le Khanh Trung...
...ominous interlude in the Vice President's three-day swing through South VietNam, a tour of syntax soldiering that found Humphrey at his ebullient best. Traveling by armed Huey helicopter, C-118 transport, Jeep, limousine and shanks' mare, the Vice President-who bore the code name Northwest-coursed from the Delta to the Demilitarized Zone on a threefold mission...
...document the "Temple Scroll." The minute specifications call for the construction of three courts in the form of concentric squares; the two outer courts must each have twelve gates, named for the twelve tribes of Israel. Curiously, it also requires that public toilets should be constructed 1,400 meters northwest of the temple-which, notes Yadin slyly, would situate the lavatories today somewhere near the old Mandelbaum Gate leading to what was Arab Jerusalem...