Word: river
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nervous Collapse. In Christchurch, New Zealand, a river footbridge maintained by two separate municipal authorities was marked on a Monday for demolition, renovated on Tuesday by a repair gang, demolished as scheduled on Wednesday, visited on Thursday by another gang sent to paint...
Every fall, as delegates to the 82-nation U.N. General Assembly troop into the glass palace on Manhattan's East River, the world undergoes its equivalent of the annual visit to the dentist. Last week, as the Assembly's 14th session got into full swing, the patient's mouth was wide open and, amid plenty of hollering and yelping, virtually all of mankind's political cavities, abscesses and fillings were mercilessly probed...
...fighter planes and Ilyushin jet bombers. To Russia go hundreds of young Afghans for training as pilots and mechanics. In the country's northern provinces, Soviet aid is transforming potholed Afghan roads into paved superhighways, including one that runs from the Russian railheads and ports on the Oxus River 390 miles south to Kabul. Scarcely 40 miles by Russian-built road from the capital lies the huge new Pagram airfield with runways long enough to take Russia's biggest jets...
...Handa (pop. 68,000), gale winds and high seas crashed a 1,000-ton ship against the sea wall, and the raging ocean burst through, sweeping away 250 homes. In central Japan, rain-choked streams surged over their banks, and 85 bodies were taken from the raging Nagara River alone. Japanese railroads, cut in 120 places, virtually ceased to run. With more than 6,000 dead, injured, and missing, and more than 800,000 homeless, Vera became the worst storm to hit Japan since...
...living-room sofa. That night, when her temperature rose to 102, her parents took Barbara to a doctor, who looked at the child's inflamed throat, gave her a shot of penicillin. It was no help. Next day, Mrs. Lorraine Mathis returned from market in Forked River, N.J., and found Barbara unconscious, in convulsions, her temperature raging above 110°. Last week, in an ambulance bound for a Manhattan hospital, Barbara Mathis died...