Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teeming streets of Saigon are magically emptied by the abrupt rain squalls. At one minute the Rue Catinat,* the city's main street, is 'busy as usual. Stores named in French and Annamite peddle silks and souvenirs, white-topped Vietnamese police amble along, Foreign Legionnaires crowd sidewalk cafes, civilians in shorts sip cafe au lait in front of the fashionable bar of La Pagode. Women, slim and petite, add color with their cai-at (a vivid silk gown split at the hips, worn over silk pajamas...
...next minute, without warning, the rain may be hurtling down, leaving no one in the streets except the cycle-drivers. Wearing only hats, shorts and wooden sandals, they seem not to mind the drenching as they push their armchair rickshas with their bicycles...
Huff. It was a grey day, with just enough rain to annoy but not enough to refresh; in the musty conference room, of Andrew Carnegie decor, it was just as depressing. Then in strode Harry Truman with his usual cheerful step. For a man deep in fateful decisions he looked singularly unruffled. Never the worrying kind, since war broke out in Asia, the President had, nevertheless, on several occasions, seemed weary. Last week, even the weariness was gone...
Bigger, Not Better. For its weight, the T-34 medium tank is one of the best tanks in the world; it has speed (35 m.p.h.), a low silhouette, an 85-mm. gun of high muzzle velocity, and unusually broad treads, a feature which makes for good maneuverability on the rain-soaked roads and fields of Korea...
...broken brown glass piled over a light bulb and sprinkled with titanium tetrachloride is a convincing pile of smoldering coals. Dry pablum, confetti or bleached corn flakes are used as a snow flurry; ice cream salt is hail, and raw white rice shaken from a colander looks enough like rain. Glycerine spray makes studio props appear...