Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terrain itself provides the ultimate drama, beauty and terror of the film: cascading rock-strewn rivers that can smash an outrigger like a coconut shell, the green deep-pile carpeting of the rain forest, so dense that only needles of sunlight ever filter through to the dank jungle floor, the incessant droning whine of insects, and the voracious, slimy leeches, the size of amputated little fingers, that have to be burned off the skin. In New Guinea, the cruelest headhunter is still Nature...
...neutral Cambodia, whose territory is scarcely guarded at all, are both neighbors of embattled Laos and South Viet Nam. But in this part of the world, the god Siva can still seem more important than the ghost of Karl Marx, and what goes on in the Red guerrilla-infested rain forests less urgent than the news from the Jungle of Love...
...inflated prison raincoats as flotation equipment. The convicts had hoped to make it to Angel Island, and from there in the same fashion to Marin County on the mainland, where they planned to burgle a clothing store. But after experimenting with this equipment, prison authorities found that the rain coats could give little or no support in the water. They discovered a crudely fashioned paddle floating 200 yds. from Angel Island. And no Marin County clothing store reported any thefts...
...Olde. Water- in canals, lagoons, fountains - is "an excellent prop"; and arcades such as those flank ing Pisa's Borgo Stretto and Bern's Spitalgasse or covering Istanbul's Grand Bazaar provide not only protection from both sun and rain but an interesting play of light and shadow...
...vigil or prayer that took place during the hour-long bus ride must have succeeded, for the rain did cease to let an overcast sky light the festivities of the dap. The avid golfers immediately took off for the dark green slopes, while some warm-blooded youngsters headed for the outdoor pool. The liquor tent, however, with its 16 bartenders, kept the rest of the crowd pleasantly relaxed for the remainder of the morning...