Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After that book was published, Medvedev was fired from his job as head of the Obninsk radiological institute, 35 miles southwest of Moscow. Unable to find another job, he set about writing a calm, straightforward survey of the restrictions, censorship, and surveillance that oppress many Soviet intellectuals. This work too found its way to the West via samizdat (literally "self-publishing"), the literary underground. It was his authorship of that book, published in the U.S. this week by St. Martin's Press as The Medvedev Papers, which led directly to Medvedev's forced hospitalization last year...
...COUNTY (CBS). Glenn Ford, an earlier choice for the Tony Curtis part in The Persuaders, fortuitously turned it down, he says, "because that would have meant traveling a year." Instead, Ford is making his TV debut in Cade's County as a sheriff in the contemporary Southwest. In the premiere, the plotting was raw, but the dialogue and new TV Star Ford proved uncommonly authoritative...
...obtain in such states as New Jersey, Iowa and the Dakotas, difficult at best in Massachusetts, much of the South and Middle West. Women in Idaho, which has one of the toughest anti-abortion laws in the country, must cross the state line into Oregon. Women throughout the Southwest travel to California. Some go even farther. Though few women seem interested in going to Alaska, at least 500 mainlanders are known to have taken advantage of Hawaii's liberal attitude and resort atmosphere...
Though motorists who must swerve to avoid hitting them on roads throughout the Southwest may think otherwise, armadillos do have their uses. The little armored anteaters are edible, and their shells can be used to make novelty items like bowls and baskets. Now it seems that these primeval-looking animals may get a role in man's efforts to cure an ancient disease. Researchers at the Gulf South Research Institute in New Iberia, La., and at the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in nearby Carville believe that armadillos may be ideal test animals for leprosy research...
...opposing brief noted that American, with Western, would have an excessively large share (22.7%) of the total national trunk airline market, yet would not gain "any significant cost reductions," as had been argued by American President George A. Spater. American and Western insist that their common routes in the Southwest are not a major overlap and that their combined size would not likely be greater than that of United, now the largest domestic carrier...