Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clock in the morning of April 20, three men walked along a narrow mountain road toward Muyupampa, an isolated little farming town in the foot hills of the Bolivian Andes. They all admitted that they were on the way down from a guerrilla camp in the high jungle, although just what they had been doing there remains a matter of some dispute. Word that they were on the way had somehow preceded them to Muyupampa. Detachments of troops and plainclothes national police had moved into town the night before. They arrested the men without a fight...
...tenth as bright as light on its surface. At 2 ft., it is only one-hundredth as bright; at 6 ft., there is no light at all. Reason: unlike the Amazon's clear-water tributaries, the river does not originate primarily in mountains and course through relatively narrow channels, but flows sluggishly across flatland. jungle and swamp areas. Each year at flood stage the Rio Negro overflows its banks, while draining some 253,000 sq. mi. - an area almost as vast as Texas. In the process, its waters dissolve untold quantities of plant juices and tree sap. Now scientists...
...board of governors be allowed to draw up standards for certification of specialists. That modestly forward-looking proposal went to the house of delegates, where it was surprisingly defeated. Reason: many of the delegates are small, jack-of-all-fields practitioners who fear that an increase in specialization would narrow the generalist's practice. The vote effectively blocked action on specialization this year, but proponents of certification promise that they will try again...
...less than the elimination of the ghetto and what it stands for: an increasingly disaffected population. Though probably there will always be violence-out of anger or greed, love or madness-large-scale, socially significant violence is usually caused by authentic grievances, and the U.S. should be able to narrow if not eliminate these. But that leaves, finally, the individual flash or explosion of violence; and to deal with this, man must learn more about man-the mystery that can turn creative energy into brute force, a peaceful crowd into a mob, and an ineffectual weakling into a mass murderer...
...store, apartment building and car have been expropriated by the government. In compensation, Malabre gets a monthly pension that is supposed to continue for 13 years, though he suspects it will not. Both his parents and his wife are "90-milers," that is, Cubans who have fled across the narrow channel to the U.S. Malabre stayed behind because "I already know the States: but what's happening here is a mystery to me." He drifts through the Havana streets under the "diarrhea of our tropical sun," and picks up amenable girls such as Elena, who has decided opinions...