Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in near-freezing rain, some 700,000 Argentines made pilgrimage to her bier in Buenos Aires.* Most waited for more than 15 hours to get a 20-second peek at Eva's thin and wasted face-and often at Juan Perón, who kept long vigils at her glass-topped casket. Sixteen persons were killed, crushed and trampled by the throngs; 3,900 were in hospitals with injuries; thousands of others got first aid. In the 20-block, four-abreast queue were infants in arms and a 102-year-old woman who cried...
...first four Sauter-Finegan recordings have an enlarged percussion section (xylophone, bells, kettledrums, etc.). But each side has a definite mood of its own: Rain sizzles like a summer shower on a slate roof; Azure-Te hits a melancholy note with a low, liquid flute sound (played on a recorder); Stop! Sit Down! Relax...
...Sounds from Sweden, Vol. I (Leonard Feather's Swingin' Swedes; Prestige LP). Some remarkably up-to-date jazz imported from Scandinavia by Jazz Expert Feather. Rain on the Roof and Moonlight Saving Time are rather stiff, but Swedish Butterfly and September Serenade are stylish bits of rhythm...
...rain Had killed the gardens; greens...
...settlement above it (TIME, June 9). The city is now lower than its immediate environs-though, as inhabitants jokingly point out, it is still more than 7,300 ft. above sea level-and the archaic drainage system is out of kilter. As a result, rainwater lingers on. The periodic rain gluts have grown worse in recent years. Last week's glut, following four days and four nights of heavy rain, was the worst...