Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that humility was ever a problem for Brougham. In his 56 years with the P.L, he has been more the kindly cheerleader than the captious critic. Easily the most popular sportswriter in the Northwest, he turns out homespun stories, and often winds up a column with what he calls a "pome," such as his piece of doggerel about a football recruiter: "He checks the young man's height and weight;/Can he kick and pass and run?/But here's the question the coach asks first:/'And how are your grades...
...lower levels of acceptability. Mechanics do not knowingly send unsound planes back to the flight line, but they have a limited number of planes to keep flying, and front-office pressure to keep those planes in the air can be subtly intense. Occasionally, the mechanics slip; in 1961, a Northwest Orient plane's aileron cables were improperly installed, causing a crash that killed...
Kienholz, as a Northwest farmer's son who has made Los Angeles his home, feels like the puritan visiting Gomorrah. Says he: "The bigness of this city is a sickness. This need for space, grading the hills and filling the valleys, it's all part of man's inhumanity to man multiplied a million times, grinding against each other daily." Living in the city of five-level freeways, of supermarkets that never close, Kienholz searches for timeless values and tragedies in a metropolis that thrives on the fleeting present...
...lonely hills northwest of Ann Arbor, Frank Manner stepped from his farmhouse one night last week to quiet his yelping dogs. Off beyond the cornfield, he spied a glowing, "quilted" object-which he later sketched in detail -bobbing over a swamp. After a futile attempt to stalk it, Manner called police, who also saw the apparition...
Last week, in a precedent-setting decision, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia struck a major blow in behalf of private power companies. The three-judge court upheld a 1964 Federal Power Commission decision licensing Pacific Northwest Power Co., a consortium of four private power firms, to build a $257 million, 670-ft.-high dam and a generating plant at Mountain Sheep, in the middle reaches of the Snake River astride the Oregon-Idaho border. The court unanimously rejected the challenge of the Washington Public Power Supply System, a group of 16 public utilities, which...