Word: aridity
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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...
...Maggots. Haled into court for fraud, Matthew Gorer does not defend himself; instead, he lectures the court and the public on the arid conventionality of a society that accepts art only if it has been certified by recognized authorities. "So to show you what's going on I set about painting a picture which everyone would praise without fail, for all the wrong reasons. I wanted to show up the pundits and the cranks, the speculators and the snobs, the whole bunch of maggots...
...nose. An attendant handed him a notebook labeled ''Log Book of the Spaceship Vostok II.'' With exaggerated care, Titov examined the pencil dangling from the log, and remembered: "Yuri Gagarin did not attach his pencil firmly and lost it." Then the hatch clanged shut, arid soon Vostok II lifted through the clear air to carry Titov on the longest journey ever made by man -nearly 435,000 miles in 17 hurtling orbits around the earth...