Word: valley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grumpy was Jawaharlal Nehru last week. It was the temper-trying month before the monsoon, and the rains that had brought floods to the Brahmaputra Valley had not yet brought relief to New Delhi. In the dusty streets, bullocks steamed and lepers drowsed beside their begging bowls; in his office, a peevish Prime Minister grumbled about curdled milk, loudly complained about a badly designed public building, ticked off a Hindi language enthusiast in testy Hindi, finally flounced off for an hour's relaxation at a private screening of Danny Kaye's Knock on Wood...
...rich, alluvial topsoil of Algeria's Cheliff River valley has long provided France with one of her richest colonial gardens, but the bedrock that lies under the valley's rich farms is full of treachery. One night last week it was torn and wrenched with such mighty subterranean convulsions that in just twelve seconds much of the valley was a waste of flood water, its principal town Orleansville a desolation of rubble and wreckage...
...suburb of Linda Mar nestles in the Pedro Valley, 15 miles south of San Francisco, hard by the Pacific shore. So far, only 900 of the development's planned 3,500 homes ($9,500-$! 1,500) have been built and occupied, but bulldozers are hard at work gouging out lots on the hillsides, and scores of concrete foundations dot the valley floor. Despite its unfinished state, the whole community was hustling and bustling one foggy morning last week. Like millions of other youngsters across the nation, the 350 children of Linda Mar were trudging off to the first...
Joint Enterprise. Linda Mar's is no ordinary public school. Five weeks ago, it was no more than another valley lot. Now the Oddstad School stood ready for its pupils: an odd combination of eleven standard one-story houses linked by a breezeway, with interiors converted into light, airy classrooms, the kitchen in one serving as a teachers' lunchroom. Last week there was work yet to be done; carpenters were still nailing on roof shingles; there was no electricity; the kindergarten's blocks had not arrived. But months ahead of schedule, Linda Mar's children...
...Peru's verdant Chicama valley, back in the first millennium of the Christian era, lived a happy race known as the Mochicas. Their civilization was perhaps not as brilliant as that of the Incas who came later, yet they managed to live and love in ways that they thought both wise and well. They memorialized their folkways in ceramics, shaped like pots and flagons and called huacos. Last week Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, U.S. sachem of scientific sex studies, popped up among the huacos in the famed Rafael Larco Herrera Museum at Hacienda Chiclin, near Trujillo, still Pursuing...