Word: southwesterner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...utterance for publication in seven years. "I have," said Hughes, "heard of plans to enlarge Las Vegas' McCarran Field." Instead, Hughes suggested, it might be a good idea to build a new airport far ther from town. Then Las Vegas might "just barely turn out" to be the southwestern center for the U.S.'s supersonic transport planes of the 1970s...
...real fault with Bonnie and Clyde is its sheer, tasteless aimlessness. Director Penn has marshaled an impressive framework of documentation: a flotilla of old cars, a scene played in a movie theater while Gold Diggers of 1933 runs off on the screen, a string of dusty, fly-bitten Southwestern roadhouses and farms. (One booboo: the use of post-1934 dollar bills.) But repeated bursts of country-style music punctuating the bandits' grisly ventures, and a sentimental interlude with Bonnie's old Maw photographed through a hazy filter, aim at irony and miss by a mile. And this...
...March, the grounded tanker Torrey Canyon spewed some 90,000 tons of crude oil into the coastal waters off southwestern Britain. Though only part of the oil reached the beaches, the accident cost Britain $7,000,000 in cleanup charges, polluted the sea from Cornwall to Brittany and dealt heavy damage to marine life in the area. And there are other vessels afloat that could make an even bigger mess...
...SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Hedley Donovan, L.H.D., editor-in-chief, Time...
...good thing. If he were 100% efficient, there is no telling how fast he could run. Three times last winter Hines tied the indoor world record of 5.9 sec. in the 60-yd. dash. Last month, in the 100-yd. dash at Houston's Southwestern Athletic Conference meet, he got off to a so-so start, still was timed in 9.1 sec.-equaling the world record set by Bob Hayes in 1963. Two weeks later in Modesto, Calif., he was again a little slow getting out of the blocks, but tied the world mark...