Word: southwesterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clouds that hide the mountains of southwest Cyprus came a strange army of men dangling on ropes from hovering helicopters. Touching down in the region of Mount Troodos, the parachuters cordoned off a circular area while 2,000 British soldiers and Cyprus police moved into the villages. Operation "Black Mac," concluded last week, was rated by the British the largest and most successful campaign yet against EOKA, the Union-with-Greece underground that in the last 22 months has assassinated 98 British and 140 Cypriots on Britain's island base in the Mediterranean...
...Krebs is the chief reason S.M.U. is the hottest basketball team the region has had in years, and S.M.U.'s hot record is the chief reason that the football-happy Southwest is taking a new look at the upstart sport of basketball. All around the conference, new field houses are bulging with fans of what many football coaches airily dismiss as "that round-ball game." Tangible proof of the new tradition at S.M.U. is the $2,250,000 field house off Mockingbird Lane completed this season. "We're not going to convert any dyed-in-the-wool football...
...Until he found a good big man eager to learn, Doc Hayes turned out second-rate teams in the Southwest Conference. Then Hayes spotted Krebs in a high-school all-star game, soon persuaded him and two other high-school stars from the St. Louis area to accept scholarships at S.M.U. by glowingly describing the rewards of building a winning tradition. Since then Krebs and his buddies have built tradition at a rapid clip. They won the Southwest Conference championship as sophomores and juniors, last year fought to the semifinals of the N.C.A.A. tournament before losing to top-ranked...
Last week Britain announced plans for a new steppingstone in the Indian Ocean: the island of Gan in the Maldives, a group of coral islands (pop. 93,000) some 400 miles southwest of Ceylon whose sultans have basked under the protection of the British navy since 1795. The rent (amount undisclosed) Britain has agreed to pay for Gan should provide a long-needed shot in the arm to the all but dormant Maldivian economy (now mainly dependent on shipments of fish to Ceylon). As for Britain's chances of hanging on to her new base-"It is difficult," said...
AMERICAN PETROFINA, U.S. subsidiary of Belgium's biggest oil company, is buying heavily into Southwest oil industry, will pay $34 million for Dallas' American Liberty Oil Co. Coming on top of Petrofina's recent purchase of Panhandle Oil Corp. (TIME, June 25), deal will pump American Petrofina's assets up to $90 million, including 500 retail outlets in Texas and Oklahoma...