Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radio astronomers are getting a movable telescope that is bigger and more precise than any they have ever had before. It is a huge, 328-ft. paraboloid nestled in West Germany's Eifel hills at Effelsberg, about 25 miles southwest of Bonn. More than 75 feet larger than the existing record holder, Britain's big Jodrell Bank radio antenna, the steel-and-aluminum instrument is now undergoing its final checkouts before it begins scanning the heavens in earnest this fall...
More than a decade ago, it became clear that the booming West and Southwest would soon need far more electric power. But people in Phoenix or Los Angeles did not want to live next door to generating plants that spew soot and noxious gases, discharge hot water and spawn unsightly transmission lines. As a result, the area's electric utilities decided to build new plants as far away from people as possible-in the desert shared by Arizona, Utah, Nevada and New Mexico. Eventually, a consortium of 23 public and private organizations in seven states were involved in planning...
...from the flower-banked eastern boundary of Plains, Ga. (pop. 683), past the covered wooden sidewalks that front the town's eight stores, beyond the huge sign that proclaims PLAINS, GEORGIA, HOME OF JIMMY CARTER, to the water tower at the west-side fringe. There have been Carters in Southwest Georgia for 150 years?cotton farmers, Civil War soldiers, merchants and businessmen...
...murder, was virtually ignored by the media. In this speech, King said that "the cruel irony" of Vietnam was that "black young men who had been crippled by our society" were then sent "8,000 miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in Southwest Georgia and East Harlom." Abandoned by his fair-weather friends and sunshine press agents, King did discover a way to get his message across and help lead black people, who had at best been tepid about the antiwar movement, into the protest. He reestablished his credibility with black people...
...Ocean, partly to keep watch over what Heath sees as a growing Russian threat in the Indian Ocean. They are among the loneliest, most remote spots on earth, and the loneliest of all is Gan, a dot of coral only 1¾ miles long in the Maldives, 700 miles southwest of Ceylon, 42 miles below the equator, and 2,200 miles east of Africa. For a view of that farthest-flung outpost of a vanishing empire, TIME Correspondent John Blashill recently visited Gan. His report...