Word: southwesterner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...David Lawrence declared that all the activity on Goldwater's behalf amounted to "something rather sensational"-a real "ground swell." Columnist William S. White said that if a Republican national convention were held now, Goldwater would have almost all the delegate votes of at least 13 Southern and Southwestern states...
...scattered southwestern cotton fields, the slow, soft green of spring is sprouting against a strange background: glittering gridirons of broad black stripes. Paper-thin strips of polyethylene plastic stretch across the fields, warming the soil, conserving water, choking out weeds, protecting the land against the erosion of wind and rain. And if the coddled cotton crop that is even now poking tentatively into view grows close to its rich promise, its payoff may be the beginning of an agricultural revolution...
...MESCALINE, the oldest, is extracted from the tops, or buttons, of peyote, a cactus common in the Southwestern U.S. and Mexico. The buttons are used as a communion host by the Native American
With its stupefying temperatures and bleak terrain, Britain's Aden Colony on the southwestern fringe of the Arabian Peninsula is one of the world's most unattractive pieces of real estate. But it has its value nonetheless. Between Suez and Singapore, it is the only suitable fueling and victualing station for the British navy, and 8,000 troops of Her Majesty's Middle East Command are stationed on its 75 square miles of overheated rock...
Though few Easterners know of it, Halliburton Co. of Dallas is a potent force in Southwestern business. Founded in 1921, Halliburton started out cementing oil wells, eventually branched into production of everything from transformer equipment to pneumatic handling gear for bulk materials. With 9,000 employees in 27 countries, Halliburton last year earned $16,780,000 on sales of $193,500,000. Last week, in a move calculated to thrust his company into the top echelon of U.S. corporations, Halliburton's President Loren B. Meaders (pronounced Medders), 55, announced that he was negotiating to buy Houston's Brown...