Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perilous Pitch. West Coast, operating primarily in the Northwest, earned a handsome $836,000 on revenues of $18 million last year despite a number of low-profit, short-hop routes and a 20-plane fleet burdened by eight aging DC-3s. One of its biggest assets is its president and 30% owner, Nick Bez, 72, long a kingpin of the Democratic Party in Washington State. Bez will be chairman of the new line...
...contagion of cooperation was not limited to Southeast Asia. Even as ASEAN was being born, Japan met one of the toughest tests of its regional role in the Northwest Pacific, by agreeing to $270 million in credits to finance South Korea's second five-year plan and the purchase of ships and fishing equipment. The Koreans, who still remember long, painful years of Japanese colonial rule, reciprocated in a way that would have been unthinkable a few years ago: they agreed to conduct the talks in Japanese...
...crush them with his superior firepower. What he did not know was that Admiral Chester W. Nimitz's Naval Intelligence experts had cracked the Japanese code and had pieced together the entire operation (including a diversionary thrust toward the Aleutians). When Yamamoto's striking force arrived northwest of Midway on June 4, 1942, U.S. carriers were waiting...
When construction is completed next June, there will be no cars at all on the road between the northwest corner of the Yard and the fire station at Broadway and Cambridge St. The former roadway will be landscaped with grass, trees and shrubs; new sidewalks will connect the Yard with Lowell Lecture Hall, the Law School, and other University buildings in the "north campus." The project's total cost to Harvard will be about $3 million--$2.8 million for construction and the rest for administrative expenses and landscaping...
...Garbage Cans. Just after midnight, the rockets began falling on Danang from the hills northwest and southwest of the base, the citadel of the U.S. Marines in Viet Nam and a major launching pad for the air war on the Communist North. In scarcely more than five minutes, the Communists fired at least 50 122-mm. rockets, dropping them among the parked planes with pinpoint accuracy. Several Air Force 4-FC Phantoms and Marine F-8 fighter-bombers, caught fully fueled and with their bomb racks loaded, were blown high into the air by the explosions. One rocket crashed into...