Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capital city of San Juan (pop. 400,000) sits on two islands between a bay and a lagoon. Its sights are blue-bricked streets, ancient masonry, white skyscrapers, rain-dappled, flamboyant trees, traffic jams of Fords, Chevies, Opels, Consuls, Taunuses and Vespa scooters. In the old city, hand-printed poems of amor on sale at 25? flutter from a clothespin in a dowdy doorway next to a modern furniture store whose neon sign shouts: "Use Nuestro Layaway Plan." But San Juan also has festering El Fanguito and neighboring swampland slums of stilted crackerbox shanties, partly cleared but still the home...
Just as the wheat farmers and cattlemen in the old dust-bowl area saw success ahead with lots of rain, big crops and good prices, along-as always-came something else. Last week, in millions of waving green acres of western Kansas, eastern Colorado, and extending north into Nebraska and south into the Texas Panhandle and New Mexico, the something else was the promise of the worst grasshopper plague in 20 years...
...ground, where female hoppers deposited pods of 50 to 75 eggs apiece last summer, crawled up to 600 tiny, green, perfectly shaped grasshoppers per square yard (60 is a bad infestation) in fine, husky condition because of the mild winter and heavy rain. In a few weeks the hoppers, now no bigger than a grain of rice, will be big brown adults, devouring every green thing in sight and, as if on signal, taking off in cloudlike migratory flight to other fields...
SOUTHERN RHODESIA A Winter's Tale "When it rains in winter a king dies," goes an old African saying. Last week, in the dead of Southern Rhodesia's cool, dry winter, the skies opened suddenly, and hail and rain swept across the rolling hills of light brown grass. That day citizens of Southern Rhodesia, going to the polls from the Limpopo to the Zambezi, voted Garfield Todd, their Prime Minister for five years until last February, into political oblivion. His United Rhodesia Party, upholding the zeal for racial "partnership" that earned him the name of "Kaffir lover...
...case of rain, the exercises will be held in New Lecture Hall. The forecast is for continuing cloudiness this morning but it is expected that rain will hold off until this afternoon...