Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...transport 8,500 of the city's junior high school students. To add to the school board's problems, its 27-year-old president, John E. Gallagher Jr., was convicted in municipal court last week of disturbing the peace. While riding in a car on a highway southwest of the city, he had flashed his bare buttocks at his brother, who was in another car. Gallagher called the adolescent episode "a silly mistake...
...Hispanics as newcomers to the U.S. How about us mestizos or, as we are more commonly known, chicanes. Along with the aristocratic Spaniards and the American Indians, we were here before the Mayflower. We didn't come to the U.S., the U.S. came to us. Who settled the southwest before the U.S. took it from Mexico...
...twice-weekly passenger express left on schedule, gliding smoothly out of the airy Chinese-built station at 6:40 p.m. Picking up speed (to a jaunty 30 m.p.h.), the train, imported from China along with everything else that went into making the Tazara railway, headed southwest toward its Zambian terminus, which, according to the timetable, lay 36 hours away...
...blacks have a much higher crime rate than Hispanics, who are usually just as poor and suffer just as much discrimination? In New York City, for instance, a recent study shows that blacks commit four times as many robberies as Hispanics, though their numbers are roughly equal. In the Southwest, the black crime rate runs from two to seven times as high as the Hispanic. It is typical of Silberman's book that he does not mince around this troubling fact...
Still, Bogart's is a disco with a difference. Like a growing number of bars and dance halls in Arizona and elsewhere in the Southwest, it invites the evening customers to mix their pleasure with a certain amount of pain on "boxing night." At 8:30 on any Tuesday, the M.C. at Bogart's can be found, microphone in hand, asking for help. What he needs are more volunteer boxers. "O.K., folks. We've got six fighters signed up. If you've got any friends, give them a call and get them down here." Seated just...