Word: rainlessness
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After a series of conversations with incredulous salesmen which usually ended in helpful directions to the offices of nearby competitors, we finally got a machine and a driver who would come out to Brasilia on the first rainless Sunday. The men lived on the job site, so getting them together was no problem. But it always rained on Sunday. One Sunday in mid-June, however, Brasilia Teimosa reposed under clear skies; it was not raining. It was urban community development time...
...prove that properly trained men could endure the most extreme conditions, French Physician Alain Bombard set out from France to cross the Atlantic in a 15-ft. dinghy-without once tapping his sealed crate of emergency supplies. He caught dolphins and birds and ate them raw, endured three rainless weeks by drinking juices he pressed from fish, dew scraped up from the deck, and a daily pint of sea water. In the course of his 65-day voyage, Bombard lost 55 Ibs., suffered from diarrhea, a rash that covered his body, and pockets of pus under his fingernails...
Rome Refallen. He has followed El Cid with 55 Days at Peking (TIME, Sept. 14). An $800,000 Peking rose out of the rainless plains northwest of Madrid only to be razed by fire at the picture's climax, with Ava Gardner and Charlton Ming-Heston caught in the fumes. Now he is filming The Fall of the Roman Empire (Sophia Loren, James Mason, Alec Guinness), and next he will re-create The Circus, Paris 1900 and The French Revolution...
Freshened sea water for municipal use is another matter. People in nearly rainless countries pay high prices for their drinking and washing water. Some oil refinery towns pay as much as $2 per 1,000 gal. ($650 per acre-foot) for distilled sea water, and a cut in the price would bring more desalting installations. But cities in well-watered regions are better off. New York pipes pure and plentiful water from the Catskill Mountains 70 miles away for 10? per 1,000 gal.-less than two-fifths the lowest possible cost of freshened sea water. No one in Tucson...
Classic example of just how much difference a change in current can make occurs on the coast of Peru, which owes its cool, foggy but almost rainless climate to the cold Peru Current sweeping up from Antarctica. Once in every ten years or so, a current of warm water called El Nino (because it appears near Christmas, the birthday of El Nino, the Christ child) creeps stealthily down the coast. With it come tropical rains and disaster. Floods roar through dry valleys. Buildings not designed for rain leak or collapse. Worst of all, the warm water, which is only...