Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grand opening of yet another watering place beneath the Capitol dome: a new, walnut-paneled reception room. Among the guests was the President of the U.S. But Kennedy, warned that Morse was making an issue of such occasions, did not go near the bar, and, after 20 amiable but arid minutes, he left. On his way from the Capitol, he passed the Senate chamber, and ex-Senator Kennedy could not resist an impulse to go inside for a moment. Wayne Morse was inveighing on, but when he spotted the President, he stopped for a moment and grinned, then went...
LADAKH (pop. 80,000), Kashmir's northeast bulge, is the sorest of all. A high, arid plateau with a jungle of peaks rising out of it, Ladakh is claimed by both India and Pakistan in their acrid dispute over the control of Kashmir. Indian defence forces must thus be on the lookout for both the Chinese and the Pakistanis. Polyandry is the most widespread feature of Ladakh society; when a woman marries a man, she often marries his younger brothers also. When the eldest brother dies, the widow can divorce the younger husbands by tying her finger...
Promised Land. As always. North Italy is outpacing the rest of the country. The arid South, despite all the Italian government and U.S. aid money poured in, is still primarily a land of hunger and hopelessness. In startling contrast gleams the prosperity of North Italy, which has replaced the U.S. as the near and visible promised land in the dreams of impoverished Sicilians and Calabrians. "California begins at Milan," runs the current folklore of South Italy and each day hundreds of southerners board northbound trains to seek the living wage they cannot find at home. Last year some...
...highly intellectualistic, even arid, philosophy has not kept him from other realms. From the elegance and awesome grandeur of his recent books on nuclear warfare Russell has wielded a prolific pen for over sixty years. He has dealt with sex and marriage, the nature of communism, atomic energy, relativity theory, the history of philosophy, political organization, and China, as well as beginning a few novels after his seventieth birthday...
...first big U.S. rockets came down on dry land at the Army's White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico's arid Tularosa Basin north of El Paso. But when the Air Force became the principal U.S. rocket-launching agency, it set up shop at Cape Canaveral and flew its long-range missiles over the ocean. The Russians stuck to the land, seem to have found no special difficulty in bringing their spacecraft down on solid ground. Eventually, argues the Holloman Bulletin, the U.S. will have to do the same. Large manned spaceships returning from orbit...