Word: rios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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None of the seven acacia trees in the front yard of Sam Morse's home in La Feria, Texas, seem different from any of the others-or from their countless cousins that thrive in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. But to thousands of Mexican-Americans in the area, one of Morse's 30-ft. acacias has suddenly become "God's tree," an object of awe and veneration. That particular acacia lost its anonymity in mid-July when a stream of tea-colored "water" began spewing from a knothole in a limb 25 ft. above the ground. Local...
Despite such expert testimony and a sudden halting of the sap flow late last month, Rio Grande Valley residents have continued to pour into La Feria to share in the "miracle" of Morse's acacia. On Labor Day weekend alone, some 1,500 passed through the chain-link fence. Scorning science, and showing that he knows a miracle when he sees one, Morse has been making plans to surround the tree with paving stones and to erect an awning to shield waiting patrons from the hot Texas sun. Meanwhile, he is waiting patiently for his bountiful acacia...
...furthered by either Edwards or Fuller. The ghostly visitations over that swamp near Ann Arbor, Mich., last March happened too recently to have been included in either book, but sincere testimony to the miracles of the space age abound like grace. Samples: Intrepid small boys with .22 rifles near Rio Vista, Calif., last December got in some shots at a UFO hanging about the town water tower and extorted a satisfactory twang and an angry red glow from the visitor. Some Italian farmers pelted a UFO near Milan in October 1954 with rotten oranges, scoring, they claimed, some hits. They...
...Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
...behind him, Castello Branco upped tax collections, chopped subsidies, tightened credit, slowed down the currency printing presses. For all his efforts, living costs under his regime have soared no less than 117%, and he himself has had to double the official minimum wage level. Last week bus fares in Rio rose 40%, and hordes of favela dwellers began getting up hours early to walk to work. Since Castello Branco took over, the price of meat has gone up from 400 cruzeiros per kilo to 1,900, black beans from 180 to 950, rice from 100 to 560. Hardest to take...