Word: southwesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France itself, where the republican tradition is particularly strong in the southwest, the Gaullist campaign is largely in the hands of tough Information Minister Jacques Soustelle, who has launched a series of radio, TV and newsreel presentations to explain the proposed constitution. To ensure that his message does not get garbled in transmission, Soustelle has already replaced some ten key members of the government-run Radio-Television FranÇaise. Increasingly, French radio, television and newsreels are becoming sycophantic in praise of De Gaulle. When a parliamentary committee accused Soustelle of imposing on France "unilateral and partial information," ex-Marxist...
COMPLAINT: TEXTBOOKS UNDERPLAY JAMESTOWN AND PURITANS; FACT: MORE EMPHASIS AND SPACE GIVEN TO JAMESTOWN, ETC., THAN TO CATHOLIC SETTLERS WEST AND SOUTHWEST...
After weeks of agonizing difficulties, the U.S. had a big week in missilery. On Johnston Island, 700 miles southwest of Hawaii, one morning the sky blossomed red when the Army's reliable Redstone took a nuclear warhead up an estimated 100 miles and exploded it in the thin air on space's edge-a high-altitude test, say intelligence reports, that came ten months behind a similar U.S.S.R. shot in the crucial race for the anti-bomber and antimissile missile (see SCIENCE). Next day Air Force missilemen at Cape Canaveral, Fla. sent their mightiest beast...
Long after midnight, bathers on Honolulu's Waikiki Beach were startled by a brilliant, soundless flash above the horizon to the southwest. The flash faded to reddish clouds that hung luminously in the night sky. Thousands of other Hawaiian residents saw it, and telephone switchboards were swamped with excited calls...
...Havana harbor, Commodore Dewey gave the order in Manila Bay-"You may fire when you are ready, Gridley," and the Navy moved into its new role of world responsibility. In 1904 his father, Dr. James Lemuel Holloway Sr., an osteopath who at 98 is still widely respected in the Southwest, moved his family to Dallas. There Jim went to Oak-cliff High School (now Adamson High), made a name as a varsity football tackle, a member of the debating team (noted victory: in favor of capital punishment), a devotee of the history of Britain's Royal Navy, but also...