Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rain of Bullets. Squad cars arrived within minutes, and within seconds thereafter became the targets of a well-coordinated ambush. Police, most of them equipped with only the standard .38 revolver, were outgunned. "It was worse than Saipan or Tinian!" exclaimed Detective Robert Bennett, a veteran of both. "They shot at us from every direction imaginable." Three policemen-two patrolmen and a lieutenant-were dead and another 14 wounded within 30 minutes. "We were sucked in," said Detective Gerald Viola. "They were just waiting for us." Three men tried, one by one, to rescue Sergeant Sam Levy, who had been...
...urgency of Cuba's farm production is everywhere apparent in the countryside. Castro has promised that the sugar-cane crop "will be 10 million tons rain or no rain" by 1970. Echoing his call are red and yellow pop-art billboards along the roads proclaiming "ten million in '70," while Santa Clara bars push the "ten million cocktail"-a concoction of rum, triple sec and cane sugar. But publicity and propaganda do not grow sugar cane, and most experts doubt that Castro can deliver on his promise. After a prolonged drought, this year's crop...
More Urgent than the Bomb. Complaints notwithstanding, high-density living is likely to be the style of the future. "All the major cities are as alive and as likely to keep growing as a tropical rain forest," declares Nat Owings. "There is no possibility of their dying. They are viable, they are vibrant and their growth is rank." By the year 2000, some 400 million Americans will be living in roughly the same areas as today. The question is: Can they do so and remain more or less human? "The answer," says Owings, "has to be yes, and the strategy...
...Race. What's wrong? Every baseball mogul has a theory. Cincinnati's Robert Howsam blames the weather: "In 22 of our first 26 games we had either rain or the threat of it." Others pick on TV and the unattractiveness of older big-league stadiums, at least two of which-Chicago's Comiskey Park and Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium-are located in ghetto areas, which many fans are afraid to traverse at night. The pitchers' domination of the sport and the concurrent decline in hitting (as of last week only eight major-leaguers were...
...these big red-haired primates (an adult male stands about 5 ft. tall, weighs 150 lbs.) inhabited the jungles of Borneo and Sumatra by the tens of thousands. Today, only 6,000 or so are left. Spreading farms and logging operations have driven the survivors ever deeper into the rain forest; native hunters shoot the mothers and carry off the young orangutans for illegal sale to foreign zoos (price: as much as $4,000 apiece). To save this vanishing Asian cousin of Africa's gorilla and chimpanzee, Sabah state officials are seizing young orangutans from poachers and trying...