Word: northwest
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Roof Water. In Unityville, S. Dak., a twelve-family hamlet 42 miles northwest of Sioux Falls, Mrs. Alice Lundberg, 36, drives her white '59 Mercury eight miles from her farmhouse each morning to reach the white wooden schoolhouse by 7:45 a.m. Alone in the 28-ft. by 25-ft. classroom, she spends 80 minutes plotting the day's 36 separate topics for her 17 pupils, who come from seven nearby farm families. She teaches them on six grade levels, from first to eighth (she has no sixth and seventh graders). The 68-year-old school is surrounded...
...over Cape Kennedy's northwest shoulder, a new landscape is taking shape. Its principal feature is the tall, white, broad-hipped barn for rocket assembly (see color pages); its major contribution is the application of U.S. assembly-line genius on a gargantuan scale...
...countryside for two decades until an all-out effort by the Colombian army last year finally brought a semblance of order to the backlands. Now la violencia has broken out in a more subtle form in Colombia's cities. Last week in Medellin, a city of 700,000 northwest of Bogotá, Carlos Mejia, 9, son of one of the country's richest industrialists, was kidnaped as he walked to school; the kidnapers demanded $180,000 for his safe return. That same day in Bogotá, the wife of a prominent doctor was dragged from her home...
...Peru's 11 million people, virtually all of them Indians. Some labor in the mines for $2 a day; others work the steeply terraced hillsides, chewing gummy wads of coca, a leafy narcotic, to ward off hunger and cold. In the village of Hualcan, 200 miles northwest of Lima, only eight of 900 people can even communicate in Spanish; the rest speak Quechua, the language of their Inca ancestors. After a visit to Hualcan, a U.S. anthropologist reported that the Indians at first thought him an evil spirit come to steal the fat from their bones...
...Stirring. From those tiny things, the two men boldly re-created a vast era of prehistory. In that remote period, they say, the region that is now the northwest shore of Lake Superior was covered by a shallow sea or perhaps a chain of lakes. The dry land was devoid of life; the atmosphere may have been unbreathable for most mod ern creatures. But in shallow pools, say the paleontologists, a dim kind of life was stirring. The bottom was covered with hard hummocks - mounds made of tight-packed vertical columns, a fraction of an inch in diameter, that were...