Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into law-his first. The measure gives the Federal Government the authority to transfer natural gas supplies from areas with a surplus to those where there is a shortage. Just twelve hours after the ink was dry on the bill, the first gas started flowing from the Pacific Northwest through a series of connections to Texas and then on to the energy-starved Northeast...
Though top energy experts in Ottawa and Washington seem to favor the Arctic route, it still faces formidable hurdles. One is that the Canadian government almost certainly will have to come to some agreement over land rights with the Indians and Eskimos of the Northwest Territories...
...White House's West Wing, where staffers' offices are located, there was considerable confusion during the first week. Hamilton Jordan, Carter's chief aide, had no trouble passing through the northwest gate, but guards stopped Press Secretary Powell one morning because he did not have his pass and was not recognized. Powell had better luck at the southwest gate, where a friendly guard piped, "Good morning, Mr. Powell...
...would have lost it in Vegas anyway." Then there was the group of maids from Detroit, Tulsa, New York and Tallahassee who could not afford the $25 for a ticket to one of the seven big Inaugural Night parties. They put on a party of their own at the Northwest Gardens Restaurant, at $5 a head, complete with the Last Sunset rock and soul band...
...Rear Window. Probably the most difficult thing for me is to choose only one Hitchcock film. So many are fabulous, especially from the 50s (North by Northwest, Vertigo, and Strangers on a Train). But this little shown film with Jimmy Steward and Grace Kelley is my favorite. It combines all of Hitchcock's strengths: suspense, great plotting, complex direction, and an ability to force the audience to discover its dark and immoral sides by involving it with characters engaged in unsavory activities (here, voyeurism). Yet none of his other films go so far in lending a sinister touch to mundane...