Word: pampa
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Maria S. de Gosztonyi La Pampa, Argentina
...flat, humid pampa, as the vast Argentine grasslands around the capital are known, there was still plenty of fierce gaucho pride and patriotism. Those sentiments ran deep in the town of Ranchos (pop. 2,500), a tidy cluster of one-story colonial Spanish houses around a square lined with whitewashed plátano trees, located about 120 miles southeast of Buenos Aires. The sons of two local families were on garrison duty in the Falklands. Renato E. Riva, editor of the town weekly Here Is Ranchos, said that "everyone knows when the families receive letters or a postcard." Fund raising...
...Pampa, Texas...
...Coca-Cola Heiress Frances Woodruff of Atlanta is said to be the oldest woman ever to ride and fly a hang glider. In Pampa, Texas, Plumber Ronnie Farmer, 29, ate 100 hot jalapeno peppers in 15 minutes, destroying the previous record (94 in 111 minutes) and probably his innards as well. In Japan, Hideaki Tomoyori has learned to carry the mathematical formulation pi (3.141 etc.) to 20,000 places, putting to shame his own earlier record of 15,151 places...