Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...yearning to get rich quick never dies. All over California and the Pacific Northwest, abandoned gold mines are being prepared for reopening, and general stores in gold-producing areas are doing big business in over-the-counter sales of picks, shovels, mining pans and how-to pamphlets. One Seattle manufacturer of portable metal-detection devices reports that so far this month sales to amateur and professional gold prospectors have increased 150%. "Literally thousands of people are coming through our office asking directions to the gold fields," says Will Summers, tourist director of California's Amador County. "Sometimes I think...
...match was held at Radcliffe's Garden St. courts, it proved beyond reasonable doubt that the Bok Administration does indeed know where Radcliffe really is. The match has served to lay to rest once and for all the rumor that President Bok thinks of Radcliffe as existing "somewhere northwest of the Yard." Monday's match asserts without doubt that the Bok Administration does indeed know where Radcliffe is. We commend this knowledge...
BEAVER FALLS, PA.: This steel fabricating town of 14,375 people northwest of Pittsburgh had a primary election last Tuesday, and news of Watergate and Skylab was relegated to page 13 of the local paper. As Edward A. Sahli, 69, a General Motors dealer put it: "The people are interested in campers and football; they're not worried about this." Sahli himself is more concerned about familial propriety than political ethics. He argues that "F.D.R. had a couple of babes on the side. Morally, Watergate is no worse...
NAMIBIA lies directly to the northwest of South Africa on the Atlantic coast. Though the country is the size of France and Britain combined, the Kalahari and Namib deserts cover most of the land. Of a population estimated between 610,000 and 750,000, 88 per cent is black or coloured and the remaining 12 per cent, white...
...hundred miles north of Los Angeles, beneath the snow-dusted mountains of the Tejon Pass, the San Joaquin Valley begins its long, level stretch to the northwest, crisscrossed by moist fields of newly seeded cotton. Dotted across the farm land are the horse-head beams of oil wells pumping riches out of the ground. Water rolls through the locks and valves of a vast irrigation network. The lush valley has been drilled, plowed, fertilized, sprayed and pummeled into productivity by a succession of determined refugees from Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas and by a sprinkling of Armenians, Italians and Basques...