Word: windsors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...threat to the canal may be worsened by another consequence of deforestation. According to Donald Windsor of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, the average annual rainfall in central Panama has decreased by as much as 10% since the turn of the century. "Because of deforestation," he says, "there is less evapotranspiration." And because less water rises into the air in vapor form, less returns in the form of rainfall...
...introduced his mistress Gloria Swanson to Rose. The high point of his social climb was undoubtedly the * ambassadorship to the Court of St. James's in 1938. "This is a helluva long way from East Boston," he told his wife during a weekend with the King and Queen at Windsor Castle...
...MOST LIKELY SUCCESSOR TO CECIL B. DE MILLE The House of Windsor, which proved, at the wedding of Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew, that Buckingham Palace still has no peer when it comes to pageantry...
Graton is standing on the heavy planks that form the floor of the longest remaining covered bridge in the U.S., planks that shake a bit as cars and pickup trucks rumble past. The 120-year-old bridge, considered one of the country's historical treasures, links Cornish, N.H., with Windsor, Vt., leaping the brown, swirling waters of the Connecticut River in two giant spans joined by a pier in the center of the stream. There is bright sunshine outside, and the fall foliage is brilliant with color, but inside the bridge there is only dim light from the small windows...
With no decision yet made on the Cornish-Windsor bridge rehabilitation, Graton busies himself meanwhile with other projects. His route between home in Ashland, N.H., and various jobs sometimes takes him near Cornish, and he stops to see how the old bridge is holding up. On one such recent visit he studied it from a parking area that overlooks the span and is frequently used by tourists who stop to take photographs...