Word: northwesterner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present there are nine students teaching in Tanganyika, six of whom are working primarily with refugees. Two members are teaching refugees from Rwanda at a camp in the northwestern part of the country, and four others are instructors at a special school for refugees fom southern Africa, located in Dares Salaam. Two members teach seventh and eighth graders in an African middleschool near the city and one is a history tutor at an adult-education college there...
...Rock Island & Pacific Railroad particularly wanted a man who was savvy about mergers. Reason: the Rock Island not only wants to merge with the larger Union Pacific, which last week made a new offer to Rock Island stockholders, but is also fighting off a takeover bid by the Chicago & Northwestern. Last week the directors picked a man who seemed ideal for the job: Third-Generation Railroader Jervis Langdon Jr., 59, who fought off New York Central incursions in 1961 as president of the Baltimore & Ohio, then went on to merge the B. & O. with the Chesapeake & Ohio...
Rougher landscapes, like Northwestern, demand a fashion staple like a poncho, a tentlike affair that lends a certain army-surplus charm to fragile freshmen huddled beneath. University of Wisconsin girls wear headbands instead of scarves, are so addicted to sandals that a local shoe repairman declared himself a sandal-maker and set up shop a thong's throw from campus. For trips to town, the newest thing is a suit with culotte-like pants instead of a skirt. There is also, unaccountably, a sudden passion for pierced ears among otherwise sensible girls in the Ivy League area (four...
...State's fired-up Nittany Lions held Navy's All-Every-thing Roger Staubach to five pass completions and -14 yds. rushing, but the Middie defense intercepted two Penn State passes, and Navy won 21-8. Other scores: Oklahoma 13, Maryland 3; Southern California 21, Colorado 0; Northwestern 7, Oregon State...
...compact companies also have special problems, are more vulnerable to competitive setbacks than their big brothers. Like many other small firms, Northwestern Steel and Wire of Sterling, III., is feeling a profit pinch because scrap prices have jumped sharply in the past few months. A surge of imports of barbed wire and nails has hurt Peoria's Keystone Steel, which specializes in those products. Some small steelmen complain that they have difficulty borrowing to expand and modernize, since bankers tend to favor the larger firms. But the small ones often manage to be more daring than the conservative giants...