Word: northwester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hialeah Gardens, Fla. (pop. 180) has only one distinguishing feature. Fourteen miles northwest of Miami, it straddles U.S. Highway 27, one of the roads that carry thousands of money-loaded tourists to Hialeah Race Track, just six miles away. In 1955, unhappily aware that all this traffic was racing by-much of it trying to get to the track in time for the daily double-Hialeah Gardens set itself up a whopping new industry: a speed trap...
They gave it everything they had, and a lot they did not. They gave it, for a budget, almost $6,000,000, and for a setting the most beautiful Hawaiian island -Kauai, about 100 miles west-northwest of Honolulu. They gave it a topflight director (Joshua Logan) and a glittering cast. They gave it, on the theory that there can never be too much of a good thing, every last alarum and excursion of the play's somewhat too ployful plot, and then proceeded to lard it out with new business, a new song, even a whole new battle...
...potentially oil-rich Sahara away from France and Spain. At the oasis of M'mahid before a cheering throng of desert riders, he laid formal claim to the western Sahara-a claim based on the fact that 900 years ago his ancestors of the Almoravide Dynasty ruled all northwest Africa...
...Pulitzer Prizewinning Historian R. Carlyle Buley (The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period, 1815-1840) of Indiana University gloomily reported the results of an informal American history quiz he gave 90 of his students. Of the 90, only eight could identify the Bill of Rights, only four knew what a right-to-work law is, only 15 came anywhere near estimating the population of the U.S., and none could name a scholarly history of the country or an author who had written one. The best showing: 18 could describe the progressive income tax. But, said Historian Buley, "I'm sure...
...stop spot decay in good neighborhoods. They suggest that a better way would be to scatter small units in strategic sites. Because Southern federal housing officials have been notably critical of the "blockbusting" theories of the housing authority, it finally set up the first experiment in Cedartown, 70 miles northwest of Atlanta...