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...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...
With accompanying gusts of self-congratulation, Chicago's high-velocity radio station WIND was noisily blowing good toward an unaccustomed quadrant-the city's high schools. Teen-agers got a daily earful of such airborne blasts as: "Want to hear about a contest that's fantabulous? Then, guys and gals, listen! Just write, in 50 words or less, a statement saying 'I am going back to school because.' Enter today-that sawbuck will look pretty sharp in your pocketbook! The grand prize winner will win $100 in loot. Take part in all these kicks!" Sample...
...sketched a powerful case against the military. Some of the characters, including the woman prisoner and a fugitive criminal, have a prefabricated, Hollywood patness. But Novelist Swarthout writes in a workmanlike style that only occasionally recalls the toothless tigers of the men's magazines. He explores a dark quadrant of the mind, and if he has not solved its paradoxes-coward's courage and hero's cowardice-it may be because, as he says of Chihuahua, it is a country of no answers...