Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...built on Mount Wilson above Los Angeles, the heat produced as a byproduct could be guided into the atmosphere, raising the inversion layer that hangs over Los Angeles to 19,000 feet, thus ridding the city of smog. A sea breeze could be drawn into the space beneath, bringing rain that would transform the high desert between Los Angeles and Las Vegas into a flowering land...
...Airlift. India's food situation is not as bad as it was made out to be in last week's hearings of the House Agricultural Subcommittee, where experts predicted that "tens of millions will starve." But it is bad enough. The present shortage began after lack of rain ruined many of India's crops, and could develop into a crisis if anything happens to the winter harvest. In that case, even foreign aid might not be able to avert widespread famine, since India's overburdened ports and railways would probably be unable to distribute food fast...
Lions in the Sun. For all the intricate international involvements, Zambia's single most important source of oil is "the Great North Road" that connects it-sort of-with Tanzania. Winding for more than 1,000 miles through rain forests, game plains and mountain ranges, the road may well be the world's worst international highway. Its dizzy hairpin turns were scraped out and leveled (often with dragged thornbushes) by African tribesmen working off their tax debts. Along its flat stretches, the road is little more than a trail of treacherous sand or soap-slick mud. Black, blinding...
...first scene, Matt Stanton, the hero, describes his immigrant passage across the Atlantic in midwinter, seven weeks of steady rain. The men and women in the fetid, icy hold were unhousebroken animals. Beslimed in his own filth-a symbolic rebirth-Matt rises from the hold to be dashed with the condescending baptism of the new world: "In America, we bathe." In the strangled fury of his pride, Matt learns a new commandment: "Get power. Without it, there can be no decency." There is precious little decency in Matt's struggle for power. He steals a mistress away from...
...Army engineer's worst enemies in Viet Nam are sand, heat, rain and the Viet Cong-in that order. Sand sifts into the clutches, bearings and grease seals of vital construction equipment that is needed 20 hours a day, seven days a week. The days are so hot (sometimes reaching 125°) that concrete must be poured after dark. The muggy, rainy tropical climate silently, incessantly erodes everything from spanners to cranes. And there is the ever-present threat of Viet Cong snipers or a full-scale enemy attack...