Word: northwest
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Drifting lazily to earth under its canopy of three red and white parachutes, the Apollo spacecraft hit the gentle Pacific swells northwest of Hawaii just 4½ miles off the bow of the recovery carrier New Orleans. The only visible problem aboard the craft as it returned from its historic space rendezvous with a Soviet Soyuz was minor. Some of the parachute shrouds caught on the Apollo's nose and capsized it; that left Astronauts Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand and Donald ("Deke") Slayton hanging face down from the straps holding them in their contour-fitted couches for several minutes...
Many Americans have found that; holiday in their own country is now less expensive than almost any foreign foray, whether they buy the cheapest ticket -the Greyhound Ameripass, 30 days of unlimited bus travel for $175-or go for a fly-and-drive tour of the Northwest. Travel within the U.S. has shown a marked increase, notably in the South and West. Alaska and Hawaii have also enjoyed a bumper summer. Heading south into Baja California along the new transpeninsular highway, gringo travelers have discovered such little-known Mexican resorts as Puerto Escondido, Loreto and Mulegé, all moderately priced...
...machine. Along with his impressive track record, Thompson enters the race, according to a survey conducted by Market Opinion Research of Detroit Co., with a 75% statewide recognition factor and a job approval percentage of 80. In a recent telephone poll conducted in the nominally Democratic city of Rockford, northwest of Chicago, Thompson polled 44% to Walker...
...worst-hit section of Haiti is the northwest, a region of rugged, treeless hills where only cactus and mesquite seem to flourish. There were heavy rains in November when, as Baptist Missionary Vance Brown puts it, "the people went crazy planting like they've never planted before. And then we didn't get another sniff of rain for seven months." The winter crop was lost and the spring crop, which normally would be planted in April, was never put in at all. To make matters still worse, a mysterious disease called "yellowing" has killed coconut palms that were...
...from the U.S. Forest Service and Penn State University, Jones imported and planted carefully selected species of trees from all over the world, seeking out those that might grow in the acid, stony soil. He brought in evergreens-pines from Austria, Scotland and Norway, Douglas fir from the Pacific Northwest-because they hide the still-furrowed landscape all year round. He planted Chinese chestnuts, which also thrive in otherwise inhospitable earth, and hybrid poplars that grow so quickly "you have to jump back after planting them so that you don't get poked in the eye." Today the farm...