Word: northwester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Delphi was once one of the spiritual centers of the Western world. In this rocky glen beneath Mount Parnassus, 100 miles northwest of Athens, stood the sacred stone called Omphalos-the navel of the earth, where two eagles started by Zeus from opposite edges of creation had met. Close to the great temple of Apollo, which housed the storied oracle and its fume-drugged priestess, each city-state of ancient Greece maintained its own temple. Last week the Greek government announced plans to turn Delphi into a modern center for the spiritual gathering of nations, invited the 15 nations comprising...
Last week northwest Canada's barren muskeg was crawling with oilmen. To get in on the continent's hottest oil play, well over 200 companies will spend $160 million for exploration this year alone, and they are just getting started. Says Home Oil Geologist Alexander Clark: "This region is where Texas was 30 years ago. In the next 25 or 30 years, it is not unreasonable to expect there will be found hundreds of fields, some small, but others as big as anything yet found...
...Remedy. To Macon County's State Senator Sam Engelhardt Jr., executive secretary of the Alabama Association of Citizens' Councils, the remedy was obvious. Sam Engelhardt, taking a look at Tuskegee's square-mile area, noted that most of the city's Negroes live in the northwest quadrant near the institute or to the south of it. The remedy, which he proposed to the state legislature this spring: shrink the city limits by some 50%-and in such a way as to reduce Tuskegee's Negro population to about 400, its registered Negro voters to nine...
Black oil, bubbling unexpectedly from the bowels of the earth, often begets friction and fire as well as power and progress. But in one small corner of northwest Borneo, thanks to the cooperation of a Britain grown wiser through past mistakes and an Oriental potentate with a social conscience, the discovery of oil has set a tiny nation of some of the world's most primitive people rocketing toward a prosperous future on smoothly lubricated wheels...
...CHINA AIR ROUTES for U.S. airlines will be urged by Washington Democrat Warren Magnuson, Senate Commerce Committee chairman, who proposes that resumption of U.S. passenger and mail flights would be good first step toward opening trade with Chinese Communists. Pan American World Airways and Northwest Airlines hold certificates to fly to China, but cannot do so until State Department drops travel...