Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the Iron Curtain is less rigid than it used to be, Western newsmen are still welcomed cautiously in East Germany. After arriving in Leipzig, 90 miles southwest of the Berlin Wall, Chief European Correspondent William Rademaekers and Bonn Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan discovered that their time was not to be entirely their own. "The authorities," Rademaekers says, "had organized a togetherness program stretching over two weeks." Reluctantly, G.D.R. officials gave in to the correspondents' request to split up: Rademaekers traveled east to the Polish border, while Nelan went as far south as "Saxon Switzerland" near the Czech border...
Among the largest firms are Deltona, General Development Corp and GAC Corp., most of whose developments are in Florida, and Horizon Corp. and McCulloch Oil Corp., which concentrate on the Southwest...
Colorado, 50 miles north of Denver $1,000-$2,000 per acre Utah, Sanpete County Up to $1,000 per acre New Mexico, at foot Sandia Mountain $5,000 per acre Missouri, 150 miles southwest of St. Louis $150-$200 per acre Missouri, north central $500 per acre Illinois, west of Fox River $3,000-plus per acre Northern Michigan $250-$300 per acre Alabama, 30 miles from Montgomery $150-$400 per acre
...skills he needed to survive, and is now two years away from getting his M.D. He is more fortunate than many of the blacks and other minority-group students admitted to U.S. medical schools in the past several years. Many are graduates of small schools in the South and Southwest that did not provide the scientific background medical students must have. Others were simply unprepared for the work loads in medical school. As a result, a number of minority students have been forced to drop...
SCOTLAND: The village of Rockcliffe in Kirkcudbrightshire (pronounced Cur-coo-bree-sher) in southwest Scotland lies at the end of the Moors Road and overlooks the silvery waters of the Solway Firth. Just outside the village on a high, rocky peak, a group of young archaeological students, under the direction of Lloyd R. Laing of the University of Liverpool, spent five weeks trying to find the palace of King Urien of Rheged, as part of their course for a degree in ancient and medieval history and archaeology. The site, which is a citadel with ramparts, dates back to the early...