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...cracked bed of the Rio Grande River filled with a boiling torrent, and in the flat lands of the lower valley, 4,000 people were driven from their homes by the rising waters. Three cities and towns were flooded; the brown tide covered 50,000 acres. Most of the onion crop in the lower Rio Grande valley, a quarter of the tomato crop and 10% of the cantaloupes were ruined. Health officers labored day and night against the threat of typhoid, by week's end had inoculated 60,000 people...
...natural Southwest drama is too slow to interest moviegoers, for life on the desert proceeds lazily. To maintain interest Disney spot lights rare desert events--a Gila monster stalking a desert rat, a summer torrent building up into a wall of water, the blossoming of cactus flowers. The splicing and re-splicing gives the film such a rapid gait that within a few minutes a wild pig chases a bobcat up a hundred foot saguaro, a poisonous wasp vanquishes an equally deadly tarantula, and red hawk devours a rattlesnake. The most callous little boy will lie awake until three...
...Indian army operating as the "Imperial Reserve" behind British and French strength (before World War II)-are not what they were. What remains-one division of the British-officered Arab Legion and two British divisions in the Suez Canal Zone-would be toothpicks in the torrent. (Britain, moreover, is negotiating to quit the Zone.) The Arab states are divided against each other and divided within, more scared of Israel, and more resentful of Britain, than of Russia...
Last week, after he had treated Egypt's Deputy Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser to a torrent of insults at Cairo's fashionable opera opening, Tugay was told bluntly to get out of Egypt within 24 hours. Tugay complained again, and the grace period was extended another day. Then, with only the British and Belgian ambassadors on hand to wish him bon voyage, Dr. Tugay went aboard a plane at Cairo airport. Treating him like a common tourist, Egyptian customs inspectors made a painstaking search of the ambassador's 14 pieces of luggage, but it was too late...
...with brutal suddenness, tragedy struck. The Wellington-Auckland Express, crammed with holidaymakers bound to see the Queen, was winding through the rugged mountains of North Island. High up in the hills (probably as the result of a minor volcanic eruption), a mountain lake burst its banks and sent a torrent of water rushing down the Wangaehu River. As the nine-car train crossed over the Wangaehu Bridge, underpinnings weakened by the surge of water buckled and sagged. Five cars dropped into the river, dragging the engine with them. A sixth teetered drunkenly on the edge of the broken bridge...