Word: indios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pure that it tastes like distilled water, incredibly fertile farmland and a growing season 365 days long. Above all, the desert offers the restless migrants from city stress a combination of peace, solitude and a fresh start on a new frontier. "There are three ways of life now," says Indio (Calif.) Publisher Ole Nordland. "The city, the farm and the desert...
...risen in California's Apple Valley, along the 30-mile-long Salton Sea (239 feet below sea level) and at Arizona's Scottsdale and Paradise Valley near Phoenix. New housing subdivisions have mushroomed into the desert at Palmdale, Lancaster, Hesperia and Lucerne Valley in the Mojave, at Indio, Coachella and Twentynine Palms in the Colorado Desert, across the floor of the Las Vegas Valley and out for miles on all sides of Tucson and Phoenix...
...Indio, Calif...
They did. Loyal warships bombarded the rebellious Punta del Indio naval air-base into quick surrender. At Campo de Mayo, General Benjamin Menéndez, 67, the retired army officer of right-wing, ultra-nationalist views who led the revolt, ran into opposition from loyal troops. Desperate, he finally lined up two squadrons of cavalry (all on white horses) and two tanks and three armored cars (he had counted on 30 Sherman tanks), and started for Buenos Aires. When the column stopped outside the Colegio Militar, loyal troops fired. The rebels leaped from their vehicles and ran. Loyal forces then...
...office value. Just 19 months ago Ava ran into Frank Sinatra at a party in Palm Springs (they had met for the first time years before). Ava and Frankie left the party together and, in high good humor, rode along the main street of nearby Indio, firing a revolver out of the automobile window...