Word: rios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Indies in 1928 left 4,000 dead in its wake. In India, where the whirling warm-water storms are called "cyclones," 11,000 Bengalis perished in a 1942 assault. Last week, as Hurricane Beulah-the third most powerful blow ever to hit Texas-slammed into the populous Rio Grande Valley and coursed its crushing way inland, only ten deaths were reported-one of them a 15-year-old girl surfer swept from her board while braving Beulah's mountainous waves...
Despite that gloomy assessment, none of the foreign ministers thinks that the Asunción Conference has doomed the grand vision of a free market stretching from the Rio Grande to Cape Horn. Indeed, one of the conference's achievements was the approval of a regional subgrouping within LAFTA that will soon open up a free-trade zone embracing 50 million people. The so-called "Andino group" of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Chile will begin planning its tariff cuts next month. As for LAFTA, its diplomats will resume talks in November. If nothing else, they discovered at Asunci...
...whose currencies and balance of payments have borne the brunt of the increased world trade, the de-emphasis of gold and hard currency should bring some relief. The London agreement still awaits approval, however, by the 106 nations of the International Monetary Fund, which meets later this month in Rio de Janeiro. At that time, the plan will be spelled out in further detail. Remaining to be decided, for instance, is the amount of special drawing rights to be created. Best estimate is between $1 billion and $2 billion for a start. Though small in amount, the SDRs should, nevertheless...
...most ingenious new tool for riot control may be "instant banana peel," a powdery chemical introduced last week by Fort Worth's Western Co. of North America. Sprayed on the street and hosed with water, the chemical, which goes under the trade name "Rio-Trol," produces a surface ten times as slick as ice-and ten times as hard for rioters to walk on. Still in the early stage of experimentation by at least one company is a tranquilizer dart-a kind of instant Miltown-that could be fired from a distance, yet reduce any suspect to euphoric nonviolence...
...solved. So effective are the hormones and their plant-made equivalents, that sprays or dusts containing even minute amounts will kill any insect, including those helpful to man and essential to the functions of nature. The reason that all insects are not wiped out in the Rio Negro area is that not all of them come into contact with the insecticide-laden river. Back at work in his Harvard lab, Williams is now studying the river concentrates to learn what chemicals they contain, and how these lethal substances can be extracted separately for discriminate use against particular pests...