Word: southwesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Cooper's untitled book is a sprawling story of a Texas town during the first 20 years of the 20th century. Sentimental and nostalgic, it contrasts the old South with the new Southwest, lets its young hero illustrate the sound, old-fashioned theme "that it's what you put into life that matters and not what you try to grab out of it." Waco folks will undoubtedly be looking for themselves and their neighbors among the book's huge cast of characters. Cooper says they'll have no luck: all of his people are made...
...storm-ravaged coast of Southwest Ireland lie the six fog-bound Blasket Isles,* where 14 centuries ago Ireland's Celtic saints built Christian shrines of turf and mud to fend off pixies, pookas, hobgoblins and leprechauns. In 1588, a 1,000-ton Spanish galleon fleeing from the rout of the Spanish Armada piled up on the rocks of Great Blasket Island. Dozens of its crewmen struggled ashore, intermarried with the half-wild descendants of the "saints." From their union evolved the modern Blasket Islanders: tall, rawboned Celtic fishermen who speak little but Gaelic but have the jet black hair...
...route, through Nepal, leads to the southwest face. It was thoroughly reconnoitered by a British party last summer. Led by veteran Himalayaman Eric Shipton, the Britons climbed to a 20,000-ft. buttress on nearby Pumori for a glimpse of a new route. They found they could see right over the treacherous ice fall to the head of the Western Cwm,t about 2,500-ft. below the South Col* (see diagram). To Shipton it looked as if there was a direct route up to the 25,000-ft. mark on Lhotse, followed by a traverse to the South...
...Robert Alphonso Taft moved through the Southwest last week, his voice hoarse from marathon speechmaking, there was no sign that he intended to revise his campaign technique. Yet observers who carefully sorted and examined the bones of the New Hampshire primary felt that the Taft technique had its flaws...
Lack of central direction has not kept the Churches of Christ from growing impressively; membership, heaviest in the South and Southwest, has doubled in 25 years. Their basic doctrine is a literalistic belief in the New Testament. Central tenets are baptism by immersion and communion every Sunday. Says an Abilene colleague of Nichols: "Our growth is phenomenal because our plea is simple...