Word: blizzarded
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...week of changeover in the U.S. Government, and for only the fifth time in the 20th century a new President moved into the White House in place of an outgoing President of the opposing political party. A blizzard threatened to turn the whole momentous occasion into a farce-but President John Kennedy, delivering his inaugural address (see box on next page), more than saved...
...required only 660 well-paid (from $440 to $674 per month) railroad tugboat workers, plus a blizzard, to bring complete and even desperate confusion last week to New York City and much of the U.S. Northeast. Early in the week, tugboat-union pickets marched outside Manhattan's Grand Central Station, managed to close the New York Central Railroad. A couple of days later, the New Haven Railroad was forced to shut down. At that point, more than 100,000 commuters had been forced to find new ways of getting to work-and the snowstorm made things tougher...
...High Hopes and Walking Down to Washington among the New Year's Eve dancers at Chevy Chase Club and in the jammed hotel ballrooms. Along Pennsylvania Avenue, workmen rushed new tiers of spectator stands for John Fitzgerald Kennedy's inaugural parade, and the requests for tickets reached blizzard stage...
...Hoffa indiced on 217 separate counts, ranging from conspiracy to obstruct justice to lascivious carriage... The Classics Club production plays at the Loeb Drama Center before audiences of 25, 16 and 12. Stephen A. Aaron '57, eminence grise of the Center, terms the turn-out "somewhat disappointing." ...The biggest blizzard in history hits the Boston area, crippling the MTA for three months. Arthur D. Trottenberg, new director of he system, says (every day) that he expects service to resume...
...organized A.F.L. defenses, the result was some exciting and improbable football. One week New York lost a game on a blocked punt in the final seconds; the next week New York won on the very same play. On another occasion, with his team trailing 38-7, a blizzard howling, and only 20 minutes left on the clock, Tripucka led Denver to four touchdowns and a 38-38 tie. Teams traded touchdowns with such fervor that one old-line N.F.L. fan cracked: "The team that wins the toss wins the game...