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...been muggy. Mining families, staring from the windows of their shabby-colored clapboard houses, were pleased to see the black clouds rolling up, with lightning flaring off in the distance. They hoped for a storm, as people do, to break the humid spell. At 8:30 p.m., in the 25 drab company houses that front on U.S. Route 19 as it climbs through Pleasant Hill, W. Va., supper was over, the dishes done, and the youngest children tucked away in bed. At 8:50 the windows rattled menacingly, like a snake giving warning. At 8:51 the storm came...
...days before the election a secret message sped across the country from the underground Democratic Front committee in Guayaquil, Ecuador's hot and humid metropolis on the Pacific Coast. The Dictator, said the message, had ordered his police to shoot any citizen who interfered with the poll. In his exile headquarters on the Colombian frontier, the Democratic Front leader, scholarly Dr. Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, pondered and schemed. Hidden in Ecuador, a spectacular family trio-the brothers Leonidas, José María and Galo Plaza-made ready to strike on Velasco Ibarra's behalf. Leonidas escaped from...
Almost every problem in Washington last week was being postponed. Spring burgeoned apace on lawns and malls, but the spiritual atmosphere was humid August. With Congress off home for an Easter fortnight, the Capitol was near-empty. Up & down the long corridors of the big white department buildings, the "hold" baskets on the big executive desks piled high with important policy papers...
What Are They? Scientists know surprisingly little about clouds, which were not even named or classified until 1803 (by an English druggist named Luke Howard). They know how clouds and fogs (clouds on the ground) are formed-by the cooling of humid air, which condenses water vapor on particles of dust, pollen or soot in the air. They also know what a cloud or fog is made of-water droplets (or ice crystals) so small that an 1,800-cu. ft. block of dense fog contains only one-seventh of a glass of water. But many questions, such as what...
...smoldering landscape. It was wholly due to the presence there of dirty, sour-smelling, bloodied American troops poking about in the smoky rubble looking for souvenirs. Among their souvenirs were 1,671 dead Japanese (so far counted), sodden, mustard-colored bags of dusty, mustard-colored flesh ballooning n the humid sunlight, attracting only flies and burial squads. Soon to be souvenirs were isolated Jap units which had taken refuge in the slimy shadow of nearby man grove swamps. A few of the estimated 5,000 of the original garrison had possibly escaped, by barge or destroyer, in the artillery-haunted...