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...Urubupungá project, besides providing rural electricity, will include ship and barge locks, making the Paraná navigable and giving the interior an outlet to the sea at Rio de la Plata. Moreover, the northernmost tributaries of theParaná nearly touch the southern tributaries of the Amazon. Engineers suggest that a canal might eventually join the rivers so that a vessel could enter South America at the mouth of the Amazon, do business along the interior route, and exit at Buenos Aires...
...expedition was financed by a National Science Foundation grant. The fossil hunters. Arnold D. Lewis, head preparator at the MCZ, James A. Jensen, former MCZ preparator, Rosendo Pascual of the University of La Plata, and Romer and his wife worked from November, 1964 to February...
...best-of-show at a gala black-tie lecture attended by critics, socialites and an ocelot on a leash. Sporting his silver-handled cane, Dali held the audience in breathless amusement as he dashed off a sketch of a horseman to the tempo of world-renowned Guitarist Manitas de Plata and his flamen co-booted partner-while a museum aide scampered back and forth across the stage to keep Dali in drawing pens...
...scenic rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory." The President also put his weight behind efforts to clear Washington's own river, the Potomac, of unsightly debris-such as the rusty aquatic junkyard of gutted World War I ships at La Plata, Md. Water pollution from both sewage and industrial waste, said the President, has reached the point where effective authority is required to prevent it at its source, rather than rely on palliative measures to cope with detergent-filled lakes and rivers, virus-spreading streams, or mass fish kills caused...
...hangover test, and customers still prefer the imported stuff.) U.S. autos bring a 300% markup on the legal market in Argentina, and there is a thriving undercover import business in crates marked "agricultural equipment." An even more sophisticated wrinkle is smuggling airplanes: near the seaside resort of Mar del Plata, Argentine police are currently investigating a shipment of planes-53 contraband Cessnas and Pipers-smuggled in piece by piece. At a rough estimate, the haul would have been worth $1,000,000 to the smugglers...