Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Green Hell to the east is a rain-catching jungle bigger than Texas that supports a scant 13% of the people, some of them aboriginal headshrinkers...
...Peru's coast is even more paradoxical than its mountains: it is a desert that blooms, an air-conditioned strand in the tropics. Only 10 to 100 miles wide, the coastland stretches for 1,400 miles. Rain is virtually unknown there, but 52 well-fed rivers poke down the plunging mountains. Dammed and channeled, this water turns the valleys green with sugar cane, ripens grapes for Peru's famed pisco brandy, grows the fine, long-staple cotton that is king of the country's exports. The Humboldt Current cools the whole coast, and as a crowning convenience...
...Belgrade on what turned out to be a prolonged tour of European capitals. Three weeks ago he left Bonn for what he expected to be a brief trip to Paris. He cabled me: "Just before this road show started, I bought a nice gray suit. In Bonn, it got rained on as Chancellor Adenauer raised the West Germans' new flag of sovereignty for the first time. In Paris, where Dulles, Britain's Macmillan, France's Pinay and eleven other NATO foreign ministers received der Alte in their midst, I sat on a wad of gum. In Vienna...
...Udall, Kans. (pop. 610) everyone was pleased when shy Schoolteacher Aileen Holtje announced her engagement. One night last week the womenfolk were giving her a wedding shower. All day long Aileen worried about what clothes to wear because of the contrary weather, which changed from rain to sultry heat to dusty winds; eventually, she decided on a summery nylon print dress. As the party began, thunder rumbled in the southwest, and a woman said uneasily that tornado warnings were out- clear to Texas...
...Still airsick from his flight to England, Laszlo Tabori, 24, ex-private in the Hungarian army, became the third man in history to crack the four-minute mile. On the rain-softened track at London's White City Stadium, Tabori turned on the steam in the last 300 yards and finished in 3:59. Just .8 second behind, fast enough to get under the four-minute barrier, pounded Britain's Three-Mile Champion Chris Chataway in a virtual dead heat with Half-Mile Champion Brian Hewson...