Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alice, first of the 1954 season, was gentle as hurricanes go. She barely reached hurricane velocity (80 m.p.h.), and the blow did little damage other than beaching a few shrimp boats in the Gulf of Mexico. But when she moved inland over parched southwest Texas, her humid clouds cascaded rain in torrents never before recorded. On eroded land, where 1 in. of rain can mean a flash flood, as much as 22 in. fell last week. It was disaster...
Furthermore, another normally dry gully (Sulphur Draw) flash-flooded the drought-stricken town of Lamesa. Said a survivor. Bible in hand: "The Lord sent the rain, and I don't hold it against Him." Floods from Sulphur Draw and hundreds of other roiling gullies roared into Devils River, the Pecos and other surging streams, which poured into the Rio Grande. The big, sleepy river, bone-dry in places, e.g., Laredo, a year ago, rose as much as a foot an hour, and trouble roared downstream...
...rain-drenched field, the purple-shirted Hungarians got off to a fast two-goal start. Then the game warmed up. A flying block by Hungary's Mihaly Lantos turned the game into a brawling, freestyle wrestling match. Toward the end of the game, Hungary's Joseph Bozsik (an M.P. in his spare time) started trading punches with Brazil's Newton Santos. Stubbornly impartial, English Referee Arthur Ellis threw both men out of the game. After that the two teams spent as much energy booting each other about the field as they spent on the ball...
...happy surprise. The songs (words by Johnny Mercer, music by Gene de Paul) are fresh; the dances (staged by Michael Kidd) are wonderfully prancy; the screenplay (by Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich and Dorothy Kingsley) is fairly funny without taking itself too seriously. Stanley Donen (Singin' in the Rain) does a fine kind of under-direction that leaves the picture looking as though it just happened. Even the Ansco color often tastefully fits the mood of the wide-screen scene...
Special Kindness. Last week Ohmi was having its strike, and Japan was learning more about K.S.E. In a published complaint, Natsukawa's workers explained how, before each of the day's three work shifts in their clockless factories, they were marched into the factory yard and forced, rain or shine, to sing company songs and recite such uplifting Buddhist promises as, "Today I will make no immoderate demands" or "Today I will not grumble or complain." Once a week every worker, regardless of religion, is forced to attend a Buddhist religious service. At one rally in the plant...