Word: laredos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Laredo, the Rio Grande ran dry (TIME, June 15), until irrigation upstream was curtailed. Grass on the ranges is burning brown and then disappearing. Great cracks are ripping open in the bare, scorched earth. The brown soil is blowing, an eerie haze against the blazing blue sky, forming dunes in the fields and lying in ripples against the sides of buildings...
...romance. Normally, the river is a chocolate-colored ditch, treacherous with potholes where many an unwary wetback has drowned. It swirls between banks of cactus and mesquite down 1,800 miles of rich, irrigated farmland to the Gulf of Mexico. Last week most of the lower Rio Grande, from Laredo (pop. 51,910) to its mouth at the southernmost tip of Texas, was a dry arroyo; at Laredo, the river ran dry for the first time since the International Water Commission began keeping records 52 years ago. Goats pattered across the stony bed to the Mexican side; Mexican police fired...
...weather, angrily blamed upstream dams and irrigation pumpers. Downstream pumping for irrigation has been rationed for 15 months; the crops, livelihood of 670,000 Texans and Mexicans, are fast withering away. This week upstream farmers agreed to cut down on pumping, and a thin trickle of water appeared at Laredo. But it didn't change things much. "The valley," says Brownsville Judge Oscar Dancy, "has its back to the wall. People will move away if we don't get water...
...occasion of their talks, the Presidents picked the dedication of Falcon Dam, 75 miles down the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas. A joint U.S.-Mexican project, Falcon is being built to ease the lower Rio Grande valley's crying water shortage (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Ike and Don Adolfo will doubtless stress that it is a foursquare piece of international cooperation: the nations pay for it in proportion to the benefits in power and irrigation that it will give each (58.6% for the U.S., 41.4% for Mexico). The Presidents can also marvel at the dam's size...
...Jardin district, there are so many new and luxurious houses that one awed American mumbled: "This is just what the South must have been like before the Civil War." But none of the houses is so spectacular as a palace, now abuilding up the river at Nuevo Laredo, with 17 bathrooms, a swimming pool, five-car garage and three bars. For miles around, everyone knows that the house belongs to Chito Longoria, eldest (46) of the five Longoria brothers, who have done more than anyone else to make the once-dry lands blossom...