Word: southwesterner
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...wiry little Tarascan growing up in the mountains of Guerrero in Southwestern Mexico wanted nothing so much as to be a writer and historian. Though he seemed to be drifting when he entered medical school, it was there that he found his life work: "Heart study was my passion." Last week, celebrating the tenth anniversary of his Institute of Cardiology in Mexico City, Dr. Ignacio Chávez, 57, ducked his head modestly as topflight cardiologists from Latin America, the U.S. and Europe blew him compliments...
...plant cotton or sorghum. It was certain that miles of drear range would be green, at least for a time, this spring, and great areas of winter wheat that had escaped complete ruin got a new lease on life. Drought persisted in central and western Kansas, much of southwestern and central Nebraska. Most of Colorado and New Mexico got little if any rain. Even the newly dampened land would need more rain to insure the crops that were being so blithely planted this week. "But," the Amarillo Daily News reported, "the people are grinning like a mule eating cactus...
...Double Life. At Baylor University in Waco, Texas, Baptist Butt specialized in the Bible and business administration, after graduation put in a year at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary studying New Testament, social ethics, preaching. Then, convinced that the ministry was not for him, he married and went to work in the family's business. But invitations to speak came to him more and more often. Billy Graham asked him to help out at several of his revivals, and before long, young Howard found himself living a kind of Christian double life...
...normal, yet still far above that of the Southwest. But in the five most affected states (see map), the earth has grown drier every year. Parts of Texas, between the Red River and the weakly trickling Rio Grande, has gotten less than 10% of normal rainfall for four years; southwestern Oklahoma has gotten little more, and areas of Colorado, Kansas, Arizona and New Mexico have suffered dangerous drought. In all of them last week, not only the topsoil but the subsoil was parched deep down...
...mating modern corn and teosinte, a synthetic hybrid corn cob was developed which closely matched, in size and botanical characteristics, prehistoric corn cobs found in caves in the southwestern United States...