Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...squat little Japanese freighter, the Taian Maru, churned through the Pacific last week on a historic journey. On its way from Coos Bay, Ore., to Puerto Rico with a load of Pacific Northwest lumber, the Taian Maru is the first foreign flag ship in more than four decades to carry cargo from one U.S. port to another...
...Colombia, the rugged Andean land perched on South America's northwest shoulder, more than 200,000 men, women and children in the past 14 years have died in a senseless and uncoordinated fury that no one seems able to end. The butchery is so much a part of national life that many Colombians have learned to ignore it. Last week a powerful new book, La Violencia en Colombia, was creating a stir in Bogotá. It attempts to understand the killing, measure its costs, and bring Colombians face-to-face with the bloody, bitter consequences...
Three years ago, he bought a 1,000-acre ranch called La Purisima, 70 miles northwest of Mexico City, and decided to raise fighting bulls for Mexico's bull rings. The ranch has cost Cantinflas $1,200,000 to date, and a good bit of it has gone to make life easier for the ranch hands and peasants in the surrounding countryside. He tripled the wages of his workers (to 12 pesos daily), built a church and model homes for his 50-man ranch crew, added a maternity clinic. Treatment is free to all local campesinos. Abuilding...
Sunflower County, home of U.S. Sen. James O. Eastland, is located in the northwest Mississippi Delta country--a sparsely settled rural area where Negroes outnumber white persons more than...
...harsher - often with Yamasaki leading the pack. Critics declared the soaring interior of the Reynolds Metals Co. Building, which won a third A.I.A. First Honor Award, an impressive success; but they denounced the exterior grille, made of thousands of interlocking aluminum circles, as "costume jewelry." For Detroit's Northwest Y.W.C.A., Yamasaki designed a simple and highly practical building around a charming inner court, but then he slapped on looping butterfly canopies that he now says he would never do again. When Yamasaki discovered the enormous versatility and flexibility of concrete, he went, as he says, "a bit slaphappy...