Word: spate
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...budget. Beyond that, the pressure will be on her to produce some solutions to India's myriad problems-inflation, a sluggish economy, unemployment, poverty. Hovering over all of these are the twin specters that have haunted the nation from its birth in 1947. One is the spate of ethnic, religious and linguistic divisions that have always threatened to tear the country apart; even today there are no fewer than 14 official languages and 845 dialects, as well as numerous castes and religions and countless sects-a forbidding recipe for unity. The other problem is a fast-growing population that...
...Beginning in the Wisconsin forests. Laura, her sisters and their parents trek west by wagon into Kansas (Little House on the Prairie), then up to Minnesota (On the Banks of Plum Creek") and finally west again to South Dakota, beset along the way by grasshopper plagues, blizzards, rivers in spate and midsummer droughts that "cook the grains in the milk." Treated with a minimum of sentimentalizing (less and less in the later books, which are progressively directed toward slightly older readers), the Ingallses' frontier life comes through as an intermittently brutal testing process. Scarlet fever blinds Sister Mary: blackbirds...
Early last week a spate of more than 50 tornadoes churned furiously through portions of Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee, uprooting and smashing everything in their path, leaving behind more than 100 dead, thousands homeless and property damage in the tens of millions of dollars. One of the hardest hit was the Mississippi Delta town of Inverness (pop. 1,119), which suffered 90% destruction in its business area, the loss of nearly three-fourths of its residential dwellings and 18 deaths. TIME Correspondent Rich Rein toured stricken Inverness. Here is his report...
...spate of other recent cases serve as reminders that the law is, in fact, a vibrant anti-discrimination weapon. In New York State, for instance, Builder Samuel Lefrak has just signed a court-sanctioned agreement with the Government on some important anti-discrimination regulations for private housing. Prodded by a federal suit, which has now been dropped. Lefrak has promised to process all apartment applications with a time clock to ensure that first come are truly first served. Lefrak credit investigations will consider blacks and whites equally, accepting anyone whose weekly income is 90% of the monthly rent. The Federal...
...himself. Even though No, No Nanette dates from 1925, the show more properly marks a reunion between Keeler and Berkeley, who in the early Depression era collaborated on such Warner Bros, extravaganzas as 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933, Footlight Parade and a spate of other Late Late Show favorites. Ruby has spent 30 retirement years in the wings, most of the time happily married to an industrial builder. But the roar of the greasepaint has drawn her irresistibly back to Broadway, where she started her career at the age of 13 in the chorus of a musical called...