Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lorenz's call to his wife triggered a vast manhunt. Within minutes, police roadblocks sealed off the southwest section of the city, in which Wilmersdorf park is located. Special flying squadrons raided known leftist hangouts-cafés, clubhouses and homes; doors were smashed in, safes and filing cabinets broken open...
...young couple were in their Chevy and headed through the slush of Route 1-95 toward the White House. They listened to the news of Ford's southern excursion on the car radio, reached the southwest gate of the White House grounds just before 7 and parted, Ann to drive on to her job as a congressional staffer on the Hill, Roger to tramp through the piled-up snow to Room 200 in the Executive Office Building...
...Robert Olivier, a Manhattan-based executive headhunter, reports the highest level of assignments in four years. "The distinct difference," he points out, "is that companies are generally upgrading their demands now. They are not settling for second best." Demand also varies geographically and by industry. Oil companies in the Southwest, for instance, need executives; housing, brokerage and merchant banking firms almost everywhere do not. One particularly promising area for experienced managers is the Middle East, where skilled Americans are often paid two or three times what they earned at home...
...mixed group of characters who hitch briefly onto Alice's odyssey. Director Scorsese, having proved adept with the claustrophobia of a big-city ghetto in Mean Streets, demonstrates an ability to discover a similar but more comic oppressiveness behind the fagades of the wide-open streets of the Southwest. He leaves plenty of room for quirky tangents to develop as the film proceeds on its wayward course...
...Diego. There a women's consciousness-raising group at a Y.M.C.A helped channel her interests from a dying political revolution to a rising feminist one. By accident, she says, she ran into Mark Rudd, a leader of the 1968 student strike at Columbia, somewhere in the Southwest and was repelled by his "sexist" attitudes...