Word: southwestern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bonus for a mission brilliantly accomplished, NASA left it up to a panel of lunar experts. They decided to gamble on an exploratory shot to one of the moon's unknown upland regions: the rock-strewn ridges just north of the crater Tycho, in the moon's southwestern quadrant...
...Dame. Grambling's administrators find the school's emphasis on athletics hard to deny-especially since President Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones, 63, doubles as the college baseball coach. Since World War II, Jones' teams have won 463 games and lost only 79 in the mostly Negro Southwestern Athletic Conference. But Grambling's big sport is football. It has 20 alumni on the pro rosters this year -more than any school except Notre Dame-including All-Pro Defensive End Willie Davis of the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs' defensive tackle, Junious ("Buck") Buchanan...
...considerable amount of gas passes through a normal, healthy digestive system. Dr. Ivan E. Danhof, of the Uni versity of Texas' Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, told the American Medical Association last week that the average amount ranges from a quart to a quart and a half a day. Some of the gas is plain air, of which a little is swallowed unconsciously, especially at meal times and in emptying the mouth of saliva. Another gas usually ingested in harmless quantities is carbon dioxide, from the bubbles in soft drinks and the soda in Scotch and soda...
JACK SMITH, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, recently called attention to two full-page ads that appeared in TIME. One was for Antioch College, a small (under 2,000 students) liberal arts school in southwestern Ohio; the other was for an even smaller college in Wisconsin, VITERBO COLLEGE: BERKELEY WE AIN'T, its message began. What seemed to intrigue Smith was that two such small schools could afford such ads in a national magazine. He reported that when Raymond Colvig, the public-information manager for the University of California (and its Berkeley campus) saw the Viterbo...
...civil war and fostering guerrilla warfare in half a dozen Latin American countries. Last week the Bo livian government presented "proof" that Che is, or at least was, in Bolivia, leading a Cuban-trained band of 60 guerrillas who have been operating in the country's remote southwestern jungles since March...