Word: southwesterner
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...Summer Employment--$210/Week." This is how the Southwestern Company of Nashville, Tenn., last week advertised its need for door-to-door dictionary salesmen...
...baron was born here during la Belle Epoque, and grew up on this 314-acre estate in Saint-Nauphary, in southwestern France. The flourishing vineyards produced excellent wines, named for the estate, La Fumade. The baron married, had a son, and lived a life of rural gentility, trying none too skillfully to manage his estate, getting through the lean years with loans added to the mortgage. By the end of World War II, the baron's fortunes were as dilapidated as his estate; his wife and son were dead, the vineyards diseased. Then...
...Common Market as a whole, unemployment averages 2% to 3%. It is, naturally, far higher in such depressed regions as southern Italy and southwestern France, as well as among certain sections of the population -teen-agers, women, elderly people...
Paradoxically, Mitterrand comes from a conservative Roman Catholic background, and concedes that "my socialism did not come easily." One of eight children of a railway worker from the southwestern province of Charente, Mitterrand says that in his youth "we talked about Communists as if they were men from Mars." When reproached for his "reactionary past," he replies: "I deem it more honorable to have evolved from right to left than vice versa." In spite of his impoverished beginnings, Mitterrand has gathered degrees in law and political science...
...wife and daughter, 18 (he also has a son, 29), and is known as a bon vivant, chess player and bawdy raconteur. As busy as ever, Breuer is constantly on the go. One project is a recreational town of 48,000 units along the dune-dotted Aquitaine coast in southwestern France. Another is the Koerfer House in Switzerland that just won a top architectural award. Back in the U.S. is a new hydropower plant at Grand Coulee Dam that he describes as "Egyptian in its dimensions and cathedral in its feeling of emptiness, immensity and silence...