Word: northwest
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Other parts of the city promise to become more accessible with the construction of new highways through the city: the Inner Belt and the extension of Route 2 from the northwest. The extension of the MBTA line to North Cambridge will do the same. Moreover, Cambridge's job market is expanding and will continue to do so. According to Planning Board figures, there were 87,000 City-based jobs in 1966, 13,000 more than in 1950. With NASA and M.I.T. expected to bring more research-oriented and consulting firms to the City, and with the universities' payroll growing...
...meteorologists see it, spring never sprung because of the aberrant behavior of two jet streams. The polar jet stream, for reasons that the weathermen are still unable to fathom, was detoured from its customary west-to-east path across the U.S. and whooshed over Alaska and the Canadian Northwest, driving masses of refrigerated air down from the Arctic and over the East Coast. The jet stream's unusual northerly course also helped suck the tornado belt up from its more normal Kansas-Oklahoma-Missouri route, causing a disastrous twister in Chicago's suburbs. Meanwhile, the southern jet stream...
...vote was close-5,864 to 5,706 -but even a majority of one would have had the weight of a landslide. The 19th District in northwest Detroit has sent only Democrats to the state house of representatives since the district was formed in 1953. The reputation of Hoffa pere, which might have been fatal in many constituencies, was a boon in the 19th, with its large population of union members, many of whom feel the imprisoned Teamster boss got a bum rap. The Teamsters and the United Auto Workers went all out to elect young Hoffa, who even...
...valley near Khe Sanh in the extreme northwest tip of South Viet Nam, only eight miles from the Laotian border and twelve miles south of the DMZ, North Vietnamese commanders thought that they had found a tactical situation that somewhat resembled Dienbienphu, where they inflicted the decisive defeat on the French in 1954. Before the Com munists discovered that they, and not the U.S. Marines, were to share the fate of the French, several fierce battles were fought up and down hills so worthless that they had only numbers (representing elevation in meters above sea level), not names...
...tornadoes inflicted heavy fatalities in Oak Lawn, a southwestern suburb and in Belvidere, 65 miles northwest of Chicago. One person was killed in Chicago and another in suburban Stone Park...