Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suggest that not every state has mass transit problems [Oct. 9]? In Texas, as throughout much of the Midwest and Southwest, we still do not have severe traffic congestion between the principal population centers; thus the interstate highway program is a godsend...
...real breakthrough came on Oct. 8, as Kissinger arrived at a spacious villa used by the North Vietnamese near the town of Rambouillet, 28 miles southwest of Paris, for this 19th meeting with Le Due Tho. The North Vietnamese began the quiet Sunday-morning session with a ritual demand for a political settlement, and then asked for a two-hour break. Kissinger spent the time walking through the surrounding oak and beech forests, pondering what would come next. The setting had the kind of historical cachet that delights Kissinger. It was at Rambouillet, with its 14th century chateau, once...
Millar, a former producer (Little Big Man, Paper Lion) who is directing for the first time, has a good eye for the landscape of the Southwest and a talent for conveying a sense of rootlessness and change. Where Legends works less well is in the concept of the character Red. He is not only supposed to be a father figure to Tom, but to personify the white man as oppressor-a heavy burden for a broncobuster. Millar catches both the affection and the antagonism between him and Tom, but too little passion is generated when they clash. Understated and controlled...
...year-old anthropologist named Carlos Castaneda was poking about on a field trip in the Southwest, researching his thesis on medicinal plants used by local Indians. In an Arizona border town, while waiting for a bus, he met an old Yaqui Indian from northwest Mexico, Don Juan Matus. Don Juan was an exceptionally powerful "man of knowledge": a brujo, or sorcerer. Over the next ten years, Castaneda became his apprentice, as Don Juan initiated him into increasingly mysterious and alarming states of "non-ordinary reality" through the systematic use of three hallucinogenic plants: peyote, Jimson weed and psilocybe mushrooms. Thus...
...making an appeal for the Texas farm vote, McGovern will have to unite a host of desparate elements under his campaign banner. Texans in the panhandle region show mid-western Republican influences while East Texas is heavy Wallace country; Southwest Texas is a land of rugged individualists who tend to vote very conservatively. Much of the vote in these areas will probably go to Nixon. South Texas, however, has a large Mexican-American population. Although LaRaza Unida Party has not endorsed McGovern, the South Dakotan can still count on carrying the Rio Grande Valley counties: LaRaza does not yet control...