Word: southwesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half a million homeless. In Tokyo the Emperor's 300 cherished carp were flushed out of the Imperial Palace moat into surrounding streets. (Tokyo cops, splashing in hot pursuit, saved most of the carp as well as the Imperial swans.) On the "Japanese Riviera"-the mountainous Izu Peninsula southwest of Tokyo -two tiny coastal villages were washed out to sea and a dozen more engulfed by the swollen waters of the Kano River. Early this week, with the full extent of the damage still unknown, Japanese police estimated the nation's casualties at 337 dead, 984 missing...
Robustious Breed. Winner he was, six years ago, the beneficiary of a name and a spirit which has burned over his chunk of Southwest desert even before it became the Arizona territory. In the 1860s Big Mike Goldwater, Barry's grandfather, packed in behind a mule to found the mercantile business which now does $6,000,000 a year in five Goldwater department stores, spawned a robustious breed whose reputation for high jinks Barry did his best to uphold. An experienced pilot, he flew over all 114,000 sq. mi. of his state, landed long enough to fall...
Charles Joseph McCarty is division news picture manager for all U.P.I, photographers in the Southwest, but he carries a camera like any man on his staff. Last week, in Little Rock from his Dallas base, scrappy Charlie McCarty, 42, caught a glimpse of a picture in the making: two white boys approaching a Negro boy and his sister as they walked past an all-white junior high school. McCarty wheeled in a U-turn, grabbed his Rolleiflex, sprinted up in time to hear the Negro boy say he would not get off the sidewalk. "I could see it building...
...bluefish just wouldn't strike. Vacationer Dwight Eisenhower, ensconced in a deck chair on the low stern of the Navy crash boat Queen Six, trolled for eight hours one day last week southwest of Newport. R.I. A novice in the sedentary sport of deep-sea fishing, he obviously missed the dry-fly casting in the frowned-upon (because of his heart) altitudes of Colorado's Rocky Mountain brooks. Restlessly, he watched sunlight sparkle on fish hauled into nearby boats, then cracked orders by radiotelephone for his escort craft, full of ever-hovering Secret Service, to find out what...
SEARS, ROEBUCK will go into health and accident insurance. Fast-growing Allstate Insurance Co. will start selling policies in Southwest this week, will offer them nationwide by October...