Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attended Mass last Sunday at the Roman Catholic church, which opened last November and is located in the southwest corner of the old legation quarter. The Mass was celebrated entirely in Latin by the Chinese priest, who stood, gorgeously vested in a green and gold chasuble, with his back to the congregation in the old manner. A choir of one woman and four men sang Latin hymns. Again, the congregation was mostly European, with a sprinkling of Africans from Zambia and Tanzania and a few Chinese, among them a party member who said that he was "just checking...
...three uninterrupted hours, the little blue Chevrolet Vega cruised steadily around the Michigan International Speedway southwest of Detroit at a constant 50 m.p.h. That performance fell far short of setting any endurance or speed records. But when the car finally pulled into the pits, the joy at trackside was unconfined. Toasts were drunk and the engineer who had prepared the Vega for its run was doused with beer. The small knot of men had every reason to celebrate. Their little car had just traveled some 150 miles at a respectable highway speed, although under its hood there was nothing more...
...Coles has moved on to the Southwest, lending his ear and-because he is an artist as well as a psychiatrist-his imagination and his heart to the words of the Chicanes and Indians. Farewell to the South, largely a collection of Coles' magazine articles, forms a kind of passing commentary upon his major work...
...southwest coast of Florida, along 200 miles of shoreline from St. Petersburg to Naples, still consists largely of mangrove swamps-low-lying tangles infested with insects. But to developers, the swamps hold a promise of beachfront resorts as shiny and lucrative as those on the east coast, and a multimillion-dollar building boom has already started. Big companies like Gulf American Corp., GAC Corp. and Mackle Bros, are moving into the area, filling in the wetlands and building high-rise hotels and condominiums. The most unyielding obstacle to this juggernaut of change is a pensioner of modest means named George...
This was the 42nd acquisition that Amfac has made in just four years, using securities or cash to expand from the middle of the Pacific basin to the West Coast, through the Southwest and to the Atlantic. Since Walker became chief in 1967, the company's revenues have almost quadrupled, to $578 million; they are expected to top the $1 billion mark by 1974. Last week Walker reported that profits in the past six months climbed another 28%, to $10.3 million...