Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until the slim-winged Eastern Air Lines Electra was 20 minutes northwest of Miami one sunbright morning last week, the dark, bushy-browed little man in the front seat seemed to be brooding silently on the dangers of flight. Then he came to life. He beckoned to Stewardess Joan ("Casey") Jones and sent her for more cream for his coffee. When Casey returned, the passenger was gone. Across the aisle, another passenger pointed to the cockpit door. Casey rattled the handle, kicked the door lightly, could not budge it. She put the waxed cup on the floor and said: "When...
...narrow ledge of the high Andes, 75 miles northwest of the ancient Inca capital of Cuzco, a handful of Peruvians and Americans met last week to dedicate a bronze plaque to U.S. Archaeologist Hiram Bingham and the mysterious lost city he discovered 50 years ago. Some experts believe that parts of the city, which Bingham named Machu Picchu (Old Peak), are 60 centuries old, which would make it 1,000 years older than ancient Babylon. More recently, if its ruins are interpreted correctly, it was at once an impregnable fortress and a majestic royal capital of an exiled civilization...
Cattle and sheep graze over the vast domain of the Atomic Energy Commission's Nevada Test Site northwest of Las Vegas, which saw its last nuclear explosion in 1958 when the U.S. and Russia informally agreed to stop testing. But the specter of the bomb still hangs over the landscape: the man who cares for the cattle rides the range with a radiation counter clipped to his shirt pocket. Last week, with resumption of testing still in the balance, the atomic cowpoke had plenty of company. Never abandoned by the AEC, the test site has blossomed with activity...
...luxury-apartment buildings. The six: Builders Morris Cafritz, Frank Luchs, Norman and Leo Bernstein, Mark Winkler and Louis Richman. African diplomats, said Norman Bernstein, would be wel come at three of his "restricted"' apartment complexes: Kew Gardens in Georgetown, Cathedral Mansions on Connecticut Avenue, and Connecticut Gardens in northwest Washington...
...high-pressure ridge formed over the Rocky Mountains in the U.S. and Canada. Since air circulates clockwise around a high-pressure area, the ridge brought dry air streaming down from northern Canada. In a normal year the ridge would have shifted gradually eastward, allowing warm, moist air to flow northwest from the Gulf of Mexico and bring normal rain to the high plains. But this year the high-pressure area stuck stubbornly over the Rockies during June and the first half of July. The dry, sunny weather that it brought dried out and heated the earth's surface...