Word: humidities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lebanon. Seattle-born, Stanford educated ('31), Bob McClintock fell in love with the Foreign Service during a college trip to Europe, joined up in 1931, rose through the global ranks to the Policy-Planning Staff as specialist on Southeast Asia. Assigned by President Eisenhower last year to crowded, humid Beirut, spruce and able Ambassador McClintock ran a polished show, still found time to keep trim with push-ups and strolls at the far end of his black poodle's leash. As Lebanon drifted toward civil war, he was credited with recommending the U.S. policy of keeping President Camille...
Ever since they won independence, Brazilians have dreamed of a cool, gleaming inland capital far from the humid, colonial seaport of Rio de Janeiro. Last week, on a 4,000-foot plateau 600 miles northwest of Rio, the first buildings of the new inland capital of Brasilia were inaugurated...
...summer laid a hot and humid hand upon the land, the masters of the air waves took desperate measures to hold the public's wavering attention. Items...
Throughout the summer session there is considerable dramatic and musical activity calculated to divert students from the more engaging quest for the humid, under-the-shade-tree liberal education...
Clearing this morning. Becoming partly cloudy, warm and humid. Highest temperature near 80. Strong possibility of thunder showers in the late afternoon. Clearing at night and cooler...