Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Georges Pompidou to help allay French fears that the Soviet boss's talks with Nixon might have weakened Western European defense strategy. Despite ten hours of togetherness-mostly in what used to be Marie Antoinette's boudoir in the Château de Rambouillet, 28 miles southwest of Paris-Brezhnev failed to mention one of his pet projects: a summit meeting of all 35 leaders to approve whatever comes out of the Helsinki conference. Pompidou has made it clear that he wants to wait and see what happens at the foreign minister level before entertaining such...
After spending a record 28 days 50 minutes in space, Skylab Astronauts Pete Conrad, Joe Kerwin and Paul Weitz came home last week. They made a perfect splashdown in the Pacific some 830 miles southwest of San Diego. As the Apollo command ship bobbed gently in the rolling seas 6½ miles off the bow of the recovery ship Ticonderoga, Conrad radioed a message: "Everybody here is in super shape." Indeed, it was a flawless finish to a successful mission that only four weeks earlier had seemed doomed to failure...
...American ordered 16 Boeing 747s and 25 McDonnell Douglas DC-10s. Even when the 1970 recession left lines with empty seats, American continued to take delivery of new aircraft in hopes that a merger with Western Airlines would enable it to fill them up on popular runs to the Southwest sun country and elsewhere. Despite fervid lobbying, the Civil Aeronautics Board last July rejected the merger, and as Spater concedes: "We've had a big bad case of indigestion on those new planes...
...Paul Getty, 80, has sent the best of his art collection on to California where he plans to move. But home for the oil billionaire, one of the world's two richest men,* is still Sutton Place, the Tudor mansion 27 miles southwest of London where Henry VIII wooed Anne Boleyn...
...named outstanding graduate of his class and gave the commencement speech when he graduated from the University of New Mexico law school this week. He will join a prominent Albuquerque law firm, where he may handle suits to protect the water rights of the poor in the Southwest. Shannon does not take Communion now because he was automatically excommunicated from the Catholic Church for marrying without Rome's permission, but he and his wife Ruth, a Protestant, attend Mass regularly. Says Shannon: "The Catholic Church is the only home I've ever had or ever will...