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...everybody has been disturbed psychologically by the stock market dip. Even people who are not in the market are affected. It's the headlines." In the New York area, severe snowstorms cut heavily into department stores' sales, forced them down 25% for the week ended March 5. Blizzards caused sales to drop 25% in St. Louis, 31% in Boston. Across the nation the drop was 17% below the 1959 level. A blizzard closed most businesses in Atlanta last week, forced many department stores to postpone sales. Sighed one auto dealer: "A man has to be pretty desperate...
Fighting her way through a blizzard from New York to a Pittsburgh speaking date, Eleanor Roosevelt, a lively 75, first had her plane land in Columbus, then dauntlessly hopped a bus for a 200-mile last lap. After the bus was delayed by a traffic jam and snowdrifts, Pennsylvania state police rescued Mrs. Roosevelt but did not get her to Pittsburgh until hours too late. Losing no more time, she caught a train back to Manhattan. How had she whiled away her time on the snailish bus? "Waiting to get there...
While a full complement of European royalty and all manner of aristocrats looked on, Lady Pamela Mountbatten, 30, younger daughter of Britain's Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten, was married to Commoner David Hicks, one of Mayfair's classiest interior decorators. During the ceremony, a blizzard raged outside old Romsey Abbey in Hampshire. Because of her pregnancy, Queen Elizabeth II was not there, but her most charming proxy was doubtless little Princess Anne, 9, buffered from the very cold weather with a flannelette-lined bridesmaid's gown. At the reception, Anne, feeling quite grown up, sipped...
LONDON, Jan. 20--Scores of villages were cut off tonight by a blizzard in Scotland and northern England...
...rescue. They boosted it up to the surface so it could breathe. When it sank again, one of them swam under it, scraping its tender undersurface and triggering a reflex action of its tail that shot it up to the air. The operation was accompanied by a blizzard of dolphin talk...