Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beginning, the Soviet bear hug seemed full of earthy cordiality. At Stalin's old dacha 60 miles southeast of Moscow, Macmillan and Khrushchev jaunted companionably through the pine woods in a troika, sharing a lap robe and chatting with apparent candor about the great issues of the cold war. Next night in the British embassy Khrushchev harked back to the Geneva Conference of 1955 (which Macmillan attended as Britain's Foreign Minister), warmly told the Prime Minister: "It was with your help that the Geneva spirit was created...
...most securely rooted leaders in Southeast Asia have quit their prime ministries-the better to secure their leadership...
...first time and say 'ugh.'" He takes a tape recorder with him wherever he goes and the library of his apartment on Manhattan's West End Avenue is crammed with tapes of folk art he has tapped at its source. Near the Brazos River in southeast Texas, he recorded a song about the "rattler," or hound dogs used to track escaped convicts...
Last week he was once again proving this in his most ambitious project: Salton City, 150 miles southeast of Los Angeles. By the desert's curious standards, Salton City is something of a bargain. Though the summer heat is high (up to 125° F.) and the land is low (234 ft. below sea level), there is water and there is a major highway (U.S. 99). By car and plane, buyers hustled to the sun-struck sands and low-lying, spiny, green clumps of greasewood along the shores of 30-mile-long Salton Sea. There they plunked down...
Dressed in mothballs, the 11,141-ton Navy hospital ship Consolation now rides quietly at a San Francisco pier. But next fall she is scheduled to cast off and establish an imaginative medical precedent: a tour of Southeast Asia as a floating U.S. hospital and medical school...