Word: vina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Approximately 20 minutes before curtain time, men and women in blue jeans and work shirts began walking slowly, slowly onto the curtainless stage of Paris' Theatre National Populaire. There they stood or sat, meditatively waiting. At 8:30, Indian Musician Nageswara Rao appeared, carrying his vina - a long, gourd-based stringed instrument, much like the sitar popularized by Ravi Shankar and Beatle George Harrison. For a quarter of an hour, the vina mewed and whinnied while no one moved. Then things began to come to life...
Seawall in the Street. North of the seaport of Valparaiso, two hills suddenly collapsed into mud, trapping a 700-passenger train between them. At Vina del Mar, seaside playground of rich Chileans, boiling waves hurled huge boulders from the seawall into the streets. Farther south near Valdivia, the naval ocean-going tug Janequeo was dashed against rocks and sank; 43 of 72 crewmen died...
...official reception in the ornate Palacio Cousino, Tito made only the briefest of appearances and was then hustled off to a private room before he had a chance to talk to anybody. Two of his five days in Chile were spent in complete seclusion at the seaside resort of Vina del Mar. Four of Alessandri's Cabinet ministers had al ready resigned in protest against his policies, and Chilean officials thought it best not to risk upsetting anyone else...
FRANK WOODILL Vina, Calif...