Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This defender of American capitalism was born 54 years ago in Graham, Texas, 90 miles northwest of Fort Worth. His mother named him Charls Edward Walker, vainly hoping that the unusual spelling of his first name would keep him from being "Charlie." He went to the universities of Texas and Pennsylvania, where he earned his doctorate in economics. After working as a Federal Reserve Bank economist, he became an assistant to Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson in 1959. From 1961 to 1968, while the Democrats were in power, Walker served as executive vice president of the American Bankers Association. He moved...
...gets up at 4 a.m., puts on his jogging clothes and runs two miles near his apartment in northwest Washington. Then he eats breakfast and heads for his office on Capitol Hill. He returns home as soon as the Senate adjourns, watches TV and is in bed by 8:30. Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge, 64, is a lonely and troubled man these days, under heavy pressure from investigations into his tangled finances by the Senate Ethics Committee and the Internal Revenue Service...
...center of all the furor was a four-story red brick building in the old textile mill town of Oldham in the northwest region of England. There, in a guarded room of the maternity section of Oldham and District General Hospital, Lesley Brown, 30, a resident of Bristol, was being tended in her final month of pregnancy. For nine years she and her husband Gilbert John, 38, a van driver for British Rail, had futilely tried to have a child. Now, finally, the Browns were on the verge of achieving their hearts' desire?in a most spectacular manner. Early...
What if General George Armstrong Custer had defeated the Sioux at the Little Bighorn? He would have had to make another last stand-against the Northwest Telegraph Co. Just two months before the historic battle, Ma Morse was dunning Custer for an overdue bill that amounted to more than a hundred dollars. "His case is peculiarly aggravating from the fact that he is utterly lawless in all of his transactions with us," complained C.H. Haskins, general superintendent of the company, in a furious letter to General A.H. Terry in St. Paul, Minn. "We hoped that he would do better...
...pictures show a concentration camp on the Tvertsa River (a tributary of the Volga) near Torzhok, 130 miles northwest of Moscow. The 18th century Borisoglebsky Monastery, with its church and tower-once a tourist attraction-has been converted into a prison for convicts who are marched into town to do heavy construction work...