Word: mistral
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...findings could have international significance, since wind-borne woes afflict millions of people on several continents. Italy suffers each year from the effects of the sirocco, France from the mistral, the Alpine regions from the foehn. Chinook winds bring a touch of seeming madness to the Rocky Mountain area each winter, and the Santa Ana wind makes thousands of Californians miserable. Sulman's experiments show that this misery may be lessened...
...Brazilian studying Latin American economics, I congratulate you on your fine cover story on Mr. Mann [Jan. 31]. Finally the U.S. State Department has an effectual person who realizes the necessity for a diversified policy for Latin America. To quote the Chilean poetess Gabriela Mistral, "The only thing that keeps Latin America united is its unified fear...
...building. First came a brief speech by Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz and an introduc tion by Ambassador Gutierrez. Then Conductor Leonard Bernstein of the New York Philharmonic introduced his pert blonde wife, Felicia Montealegre, a onetime Chilean actress. In English and Spanish, she recited from Chilean Bards Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda, which left several of the ladies-and Bernstein-misty-eyed...
...from Basel to Hook of Holland. Tourists can ogle the Rhineland from picture-window observation cars and, as on all German trains, eat a full-course gourmet meal for about $2.25. Now West Germany's state-run Bundesbahn is aiming for 125-m.p.h. service. In France the Mistral, which once hit 206 m.p.h. for the world's record, rolls along at an easier 80 m.p.h. or so from Paris to Lyon. Together with Austria and Switzerland, the six Common Market nations offer what is probably the best overall railroad service in the world: a fleet of all-reserved...
Horror & Hilarity. This kind of magnificent illogic whips like a mistral all through the novel, blowing both sequence and motivation into a rubble of farcical shocks and grisly surprises. Catch-22 is held together only by the inescapable fact that Joseph Heller is a superb describer of people and things. Take his portrait of a character called Hungry Joe: "A jumpy, emaciated wretch with a fleshless face of dingy skin and bone and twitching veins squirming subcutaneously in the blackened hollows behind his eyes like severed sections of snake. Hungry Joe ate voraciously, gnawed incessantly at the tips...