Word: basins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with well over half the uranium produced in the non-Communist world; it also mines and exports 75% of the free world's cobalt (essential for jet aircraft engines), 70% of the industrial diamonds. One third the size of the U.S., it is a hot, humid, fecund basin drained by a river system second only to the Amazon in volume. In the east lies Ruanda-Urundi, where the seven-foot Watussi live; in the south lies Katanga, the metalliferous wonderland that fronts on Rhodesia and is the site of Shinkolobwe, the world's richest uranium mine. Between...
Ideal rowing conditions for the morning trials changed to biting easterly winds as the temperature dropped in the afternoon. The whitecaps in the Basin forced Col. Howard W. Robbins, veteran referce, to postpone the finals until late...
After a two-week rest from competition Coach Derrick Wilde's Varsity 150 lb crew will face Navy, Dartmouth, and M.I.T. in the basin tomorrow afternoon...
musical ears last week: Swing King Benny Goodman, who was doing a Series of weekend stands in Manhattan's Basin Street nightclub. Playing in an octet (including Trumpeter Ruby Braff, Trombonist Urbie Green. Tenor Saxman Paul Quinichette), Clarinetist Goodman occasionally seemed to be dreaming of other years, other sounds-and the jampacked crowd included many greying swing cats who could dream with him. But his playing revealed none of the tenseness that took him out of his ill-fated tour with Louis Armstrong (TIME, April 27, 1953), and little of the formality of his concert appearances with symphony orchestras...
...been painfully slow. Last week's strike, made with the help of a Texas drilling firm hired by Petrobras, eased the pain. By itself the well is only a drop in the barrel of Brazil's oil needs. But it lies in a vast, geologically uniform sedimentary basin, and heralds-or so Brazilians hope-many Amazonian gushers to come...