Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assignment, traveled by car, private plane, horseback and at times proceeded on foot, machete in hand. Most difficult site was Yaxchilan in the almost inaccessible Chiapas jungle. To get there, Guzman had to fly in, clear the site by hand, wait for days for a break in the rain. For a view of what Guzman brought out, including the first color shots of Yaxchilan's monumental "Palace of the King," see ART, "A Few Baktuns...
...great, green-grown rain forests of Middle America, archaeologists are uncovering at a laborious pace the remains of the incredible art and culture of Indians who lived as long as 3,000 years ago. They have found, buried beneath the brush and muck of the jungle, skillfully formed stone sculpture done by Olmecs perhaps a millennium before Christ. Even more remarkable was the civilization of the Mayans, whose artists, sculptors and priest-scientists of some 1,500 years ago left behind marvels of work and thought. so advanced that they have been called the Greeks of America...
...ringed the Public Palace on the hilltop with a guard of local comrades armed with weapons cached away since war's end. While Italy's press screamed of "bloody civil war" in the tiny contained nation, San Marino's own partisans were subdued by a drizzling rain. At one point the Reds on the hill organized a sortie against their adversaries, but what with the mud and all, gave up after firing a single wild shot. The Italian government helpfully recognized the anti-Communist government, then sent a couple of thousand police to set up a blockade...
...Hatful of Rain. Horror in a humdrum living room; with the wifely love of Eva Marie Saint pitted against the dope addiction of Don Murray (TIME...
Other contests of the past week were fairly close matches, with rain cancelling Tuesday's games. Last Thursday, Dudley lost to Winthrop, 4-0, while Adams beat Leverett, 2-0. On Friday, Eliot defeated Kirkland, last year's Straus Trophy holders, 3-0, while the Funsters beat Lowell...