Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longer range, better radar and a more effective fire-control system than earlier MIG-21s flown bv Eevotians. are based at Cairo West, Beni Suef, Aswan, Mansura and Inshahs. Only once, so far as is known, have they and Israeli pilots encountered one another; in Aoril, over Lake Qurun southwest of Ca;ro, Israelis suddenly discovered that the MIGs they were about to jump were being flown by Russian-speaking pilots. Both sides backed away and have steered clear ever since...
Last week Phillips Petroleum Co. announced what it called a "giant" oil discovery-one with at least a billion barrels of recoverable crude-in the North Sea. The new field seems conveniently located: 185 miles southwest of Norway and 200 miles east of Scotland. But it rests 230 ft. under one of the coldest and most treacherous seas a sailor is likely to encounter. Simply pumping out the oil and transporting it to refineries will be difficult and costly...
...single bond unites the oil barons of Houston, it is belief in the manifest destiny of their freewheeling metropolis. Having established Houston as the premier city of the Southwest, local businessmen are engaged in one of their brashest ventures-a multibillion-dollar development program to attract corporations from the problem-plagued urban areas of the Northeast...
...What they fail to mention is the city's less than salubrious climate; in July and August the humidity is exceeded only by the 100° temperatures. Politically, Houston's conservatism could irritate some younger executives, and the city's cultural life, while commendable for the Southwest, pales beside that of New York or Boston...
Died. Eugenia Niarchos, 44, third wife of Stavros Niarchos, Greek shipping baron and archrival of Aristotle Onassis; of an overdose of barbiturates; on her husband's privately owned islet of Spetsopoula, 56 miles southwest of Athens. In a game of musical marital chairs, Stavros divorced Eugenia in 1965 to marry Charlotte Ford, who bore him a daughter six months later. They were divorced within 15 months, after which Niarchos found his way back to Eugenia, said a friend, like "one of his own tankers drifting back to home port after a transatlantic junket...