Word: northwest
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...twelfth anniversary of the death of Mossadegh, the nationalist Prime Minister who forced the Shah to briefly flee Iran before being toppled by a CIA-assisted coup in 1953, a crowd including many Khomeini critics gathered in Ahmadabad (pop. 800), 60 miles northwest of Tehran. At a rally outside the brown brick house where Mossadegh is buried, his grandson-in-law, Dr. Hedayatollah Matine-Daftary, called for the creation of a National Democratic Front. Its program: a referendum to abolish the monarchy followed by an extended debate on the new constitution. Matine-Daftary also favors home rule for ethnic minorities...
Hanoi did not challenge China's claim to have occupied Lao Cai, a rail junction on the Red River in northwest Hoang Lien Son province. There, according to a Peking dispatch, troops of the People's Liberation Army uncovered stores of Chinese-made weapons and ammunition supplied to the Vietnamese for General Vo Nguyen Giap's war against the U.S. The stores included "soap and towels marked PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA and bicycles made in Shanghai...
...North By Northwest. One of Hitchcock's funniest, this wondrous film both showcases and lampoons Cary Grant's talents. A bland New York businessman with an overbearing mother--played by an actress the same age as Grant--he gets caught up in international espionage plots. The real guts of the film are its several amazing set-pieces: the whirlwind opening, in which Grant gets whipped into the spy stuff before he can look askance; a black-humor elevator scene, with Grant at gunpoint as his mother pecks over his captors, "You men wouldn't be trying to kill...
...Jones, but even he was nonplused when he was asked last August to execute Programmer Paul Klein's idea. "What the hell is it," he asked, "Love Boat on wheels?" Oh, no, he was told; it would be more on the order of Hitchcock's North by Northwest, mystery-comedy with a high sheen. The nightmare began at once. Set builders hammered away 24 hours a day, seven days a week, often without finished designs to follow. Before the standing sets were finished, the cinematographer and most of his crew had quit, along with all the carpenters...
North America's last solar eclipse of the century (right) was obscured by a cold gray cloud cover along much of the path of totality. But eclipse buffs near Roundup, Mont, (left), and other viewing areas in the U.S. Northwest and Canada were luckier. Armed with telescopes, cameras and other paraphernalia, they let out joyful whoops under mostly clear skies as the moon's shadow raced toward northern Greenland. It was an all too brief show-as long as 2 min. 36 sec. in Helena, Mont., less than a minute elsewhere-and a rare one. It will...