Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three miles southwest of where the U.N. was celebrating its seventh birthday in splendid new Manhattan quarters, the U.N. was, in effect, put on trial in the U.S. Court House in Foley Square. For the past two weeks, one by one, twelve among the 2,000 Americans employed by the U.N. itself (i.e., not in the U.S. delegation to U.N.) had refused under oath to tell a Senate judiciary subcommittee whether they were or had ever been Communists. All twelve claimed the protection of the self-incrimination clause in the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; one even refused...
...more than 5,000 years, the great pyramids at Giza (eight miles southwest of Cairo) have been among the wonders of the world; but to modern Egyptologists they are really secondary. Far more important at present are five smaller pyramids at Sakkara near by, which lay buried under the desert sands until 1880. That year, two French archaeologists discovered them and found their inner walls covered with inscriptions. Scholars now regard those inscriptions as the world's oldest large body of religious texts...
Time was, in Texas, when a man didn't have anything big to say that a shooting iron couldn't say better; but those days seem gone forever. In the last 30 years, a cloud of literary and artistic activity has been gathering over the Southwest, and in the last ten days it has grown large enough to look like the beginnings of a regional renaissance...
Crowned by a ruined fortress from which it gets its name, Mt. Castillo is 20 miles southwest of Santander in the heart of the Basque country. The rock below the fortress is honeycombed with caves which cross and intertwine. When Father Jesus first came to Santander 48 years ago, none of the caves had been well explored. The young priest, pushing through the dark galleries, found their walls covered with drawings, their floors littered with weapons and tools of paleolithic men. Fired with enthusiasm, he dedicated himself to the task of making those faraway people live again for modern...
Four years ago, Moore, now 41, entered the first big deal to put him all over the map: he merged with a Southwest bus line owned by Texas Tycoon Clint Murchison (TIME, July 21, 1947) and with another line, owned by the Santa Fe Railroad, which had routes in a dozen Midwest and Western states. (Murchison still owns 26% of Continental; the Santa Fe and Moore's original group own the rest...