Word: quadrant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That's the proof of our market." Men Without Women. Scholarly as it generally is, Atlas is not above playing up to American self-consciousness with such cover enticements as "How They See Us in Japan, Barbados, Peru, Switzerland, Holland." Its range of articles is infinite -from a Quadrant magazine discussion of "Men Without Women in Australia" (by an agonized Czech who lives in Sydney) to a Russian general's treatise on the probable effects of thermonuclear war, reprinted from a Soviet scientific journal. Each issue carries a full bouquet of literary pieces and book reviews, dominated...
Nowhere has the drive to rehabilitate Washington achieved more remarkable results than in the city's Southwest quadrant, from Capitol Hill to the Waterfront. The area was long a fetid slum (through it once ran bawdy old Four-and-a-Half Street, the capital's last centralized red-light district). Now the builders have cut a 550-acre swath through Southwest Washington. Some 4,657 families, most of them Negro, have been relocated. Beside NASA's new edifice, three other Federal Office Buildings are rising on Independence Avenue, and two more will be built...
...relief for new plants has paid off handsomely in new jobs. In the lead is Florida, which has rocketed ahead 95%-fueled by Cape Canaveral's missiles, by chemicals, and by carloads of tourists. After Florida, the heaviest percentage growth is in the nation's southwest quadrant. Texas with its petrochemicals, military bases and white-collar industries, California with its missiles and electronics plants, and Florida now account for one out of every six nonfarm jobs. Five Rocky Mountain states (Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Nevada) all advanced at more than twice the national average, "not only because...
Mysterious Floods. A hurricane's worst water damage, says Weather Bureau Hurricane Expert Robert H. Simpson, usually occurs in the storm's right forward quadrant. The wind is strongest there because the speed of the hurricane's forward motion is added to the speed of its counterclockwise rotation. And it is there that the highest bulge of water builds up ahead of the storm. Meteorologists can account for only part of the rise. The storm's drop in barometric pressure causes the sea level to rise somewhat as the eye of the hurricane approaches. The pressure...
...uuggghha! of the klaxon that pierces ears and reverberates in stomachs. Bulli and his men exploded from the molehole and raced for their plane. Copilot Richard Franz, 40, scampered up the forward ladder, and started to snap switches. Pilot Bulli clambered after him, swung his leg over the throttle quadrant, taking care not to upset switches or move dials...