Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began to perish, thrashing violently apart in the lush, low valleys of the U.S.-Mexican border. But Beulah died hard. Last week, as her final throes dumped 30-in. cloudbursts on the area, the worst floods in Texas' history came smashing down the usually somnolent Rio Grande River. From upstream Rio Grande City and Camargo down to Brownsville and Matamoros at the Gulf, south Texas and Mexico were wracked by a disaster more devastating than the hurricane...
Fighting for Life. Elaborate engineering works built over decades were disdainfully brushed aside by the rampaging Rio Grande-which is known to Mexicans as Rio Bravo, the Wild River. Flicking away a heavy, 200-ft. weir at the junction of a main emergency floodway and a small subordinate channel, the 44.3-ft. tide poured into Mercedes and Harlingen, where a Spanish-speaking radio station ominously warned: "Get the lame, blind and old people to high land." But there is no high land in Harlingen (pop. 41,100), a citrus-market city 36 ft. above sea level, and the pitifully inadequate...
...construction. With intensive irrigation, the Shah believes that he could triple Iran's present arable land-now only 10% of its total area-and produce enough food to sustain a population of 75 million. To do so, however, will require more water than Iran's rainfall and rivers can provide, and the Shah intends to get it from the sea. He is negotiating with Washington for the installation of a network of desalination plants along the Persian Gulf. Once in operation, he believes, they could supply the needs of most cities and factories in southern Iran, making more...
...Ibos. Many Ibo civilians were handed over to northern soldiers, who competed with each other for the fun of shooting them. Hundreds of Ibo bodies, many stripped and shot full of holes, were scooped into dump trucks and carted off to common graves or to the nearby Benin River. Others were left to rot in the blistering...
...most plentiful substance identified by Surveyor's alpha particle "jewel box" (TIME, Sept. 22) is virtually the same as the basaltic rock that forms the ocean floors and is found in such widely scattered locations as the Hudson River Palisades, the Brazilian Plateau, the Hawaiian Islands and India. Like its counterpart on earth, the lunar material consists largely of oxygen (58%) and silicon (18.5%). It also contains aluminum (6.5%), iron-nickel (5.5%), magnesium (3%), and smatterings of carbon...