Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like any good reporter, U.P.I. Correspondent Catherine M. Webb wanted to phone in the news. Emergingfrom the jungle along Cambodia's embattled Highway 4, the pretty New Zealander and five companions flagged down a Cambodian military vehicle and rode to a town 25 miles southwest of Phnom-Penh. There, Kate Webb-missing for 24 days and widely presumed dead -rang up U.P.I.'s office in the capital and told her startled and relieved colleagues that she was "alive and well...
Cornered the day after a Cambodian position they were visiting had been overrun, Webb and her companions were held by the Communists for three weeks in hideouts in the Elephant mountains southwest of Phnom-Penh. On the whole, she reported, the Communists "treated us well." No one knows just why she was freed. No one may ever know the identity of the woman in the shallow grave. Following usual Cambodian army practice, the body was cremated on the spot...
...photograph is a large wet-plate which required twenty minutes of exposure even in the intense sun of the southwest. It was one of a series taken by the photographer for the new railroad company. With an original photographic image of such size, great detail is possible, and the photograph is quite impressive. It presents a landscape absolutely unknown to eyes in the East. Of such grand scale and majesty, it had to be a photograph to be believed-a painting would have been accepted as grand imagination. But it is there and it is real. But its sense...
...services continued their steady march upward (except for the mortgage rates, which, like other non-goods, are considered services). Food prices rose more than usual for the early part of the year. Considering that they might be forced higher by an impending corn blight and the drought in the Southwest, and that neither mortgage rates nor auto prices are likely to fall further, few economists are as yet convinced that the price steadiness will be maintained for the year as a whole...
Distance and cultural differences, Peterson said, are deterrents to spontaneous applications by Chicanos-most of whom live in the West and Southwest-and make it difficult to attract strong candidates to Harvard...