Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against the assaults of his opponent, an eager, 51-year-old lawyer named Ralph Yarborough, * who lost to Shivers in 1952 by more than 300,000 votes. Yarborough has made political hay with a deposition, recently made public, showing that Shivers made a profit of $425,000 on a Rio Grande Valley land deal within seven months in 1946 when he was a state senator. (He had paid $25,000 for an option on the land.) Last week Yarborough and Shivers appeared at a big rally at the central Texas town of Belton, and Yarborough had his say about Shivers...
...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...
River of Mud. At midnight, 19 hours after the Ozona disaster, the Rio Grande crested some 150 miles away at the trans-river cities of Eagle Pass and Piedras Negras. Forewarned, the Texans of Eagle Pass had moved out to watch in safety as their homes were flooded. Across the river, the Mexicans of Piedras Negras placed their faith in an earthen dike; they were huddled in their straw-thatched adobe homes when the dike collapsed and the Rio Grande swept over. "I heard hundreds crying for help in the dark,'' said one witness. "You could hear houses...
Next day, just a week after Hurricane Alice blew in from the Gulf, the worst flood in Rio Grande history (153 dead and missing) ended abruptly at the new concrete face of Falcon Dam, 75 miles below Laredo. This week, as the river sank to only 9 ft. at Laredo, flood waters lapped up behind Falcon Dam and assured farmers downstream of irrigation in the searing months ahead. Hurricane Alice, for all her evil, had at last blown some good...
...investigation of the war a Security Council matter-Russia doubtless relishing the potentialities for propaganda and mischief. But the U.S. point of view-that ending the war was a task for the Organization of American States-prevailed. The OAS promptly voted to hold a foreign ministers' meeting in Rio de Janeiro July 7. An investigating mission made ready to fly to Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua...