Word: southwesterner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began after dawn with a thunderous artillery barrage that sent the villagers of Chhamb and Dewa in the southwestern tip of Kashmir scurrying for shelter. As the sun rose higher over the semidesert land-flat, dotted with brush, a low mountain range to the north-Indian troops peered anxiously toward the border. What they saw sent them in a hasty retreat to the mountains: over the arid earth came 70 U.S.built Patton tanks and, in the dust cloud behind the lumbering giants, a full brigade of Pakistani infantrymen...
...Qualifications. Justice-designate Fortas, 55, has a remarkable set of qualifications for the high office. He helped put himself through Southwestern College in Memphis by playing the violin at dances. From Southwestern he went to Yale Law School,* where he won the coveted editorship of the Yale Law Journal. His record at Yale was so outstanding that he was appointed an assistant professor immediately after graduation in 1933, commuted from New Haven to Washington for four years on New Deal assignments before taking a full-time Government job in 1937. He became Harold Ickes' Under Secretary of the Interior...
...repair his tattered press relations by putting one of his most trusted aides in the job. While only briefly a newsman, Moyers, at 31, has worked for Johnson in one way or another for most of the last eleven years. A graduate of the University of Texas and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Texas, he served as deputy director of the Peace Corps before he moved into the White House...
Many physicians still prescribe modest doses of whisky for heart patients in the belief that alcohol increases the blood flow to the heart muscle by dilating blood vessels. But does it? Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and at the University of Mississippi found that a few shots slowed up blood flow in dogs' hearts, and a few more forced the heart to work harder. Moving from animals to humans, investigators at the New Jersey College of Medicine found that men who took six or seven drinks over two hours suffered reduced pumping action...
Short Cut. Suddenly, however, the partnership threatens to fall apart-largely over a convoy of eleven heavy trucks. The trucks, operated by the Uganda army, ran into a police ambush on a lonely bush road in southwestern Kenya. Their cargo was hardly of the common-market variety: 75 tons of Chinese weapons, which they were convoying from Tanzania to Uganda. What were they doing in Kenya? Taking a short cut, said the convoy commander, and besides, the direct road between Tanzania and Uganda was too muddy...