Word: blizzards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Michael S. Dukakis, in an effort to appease local florists hard-hit by the February blizzard, issued a proclamation declaring that Valentine's Day would last an entire week this year. Dukakis also ordered revellers to stage the traditional St. Patrick's Day parade on April 2, but left the rest of the calendar intact...
...week began with the receipt of no less than eight new handwritten letters from the former Premier. They were addressed to Italy's top political figures, including Andreotti, Fanfani, Craxi, President Giovanni Leone and Chamber of Deputies President Pietro Ingrao. The blizzard of Moro appeals promptly raised a new mystery: was his family, like those of so many Italian kidnap victims, secretly in touch with the kidnapers? Spokesmen said no. But the letters, like some in the past, were delivered in as yet undisclosed fashion to the family and members of Moro's staff, who then passed them...
...high formations of compressed ice known as pressure ridges blocked his route across the frozen Arctic Ocean obliging him to hack passageways through the ice to make way for his 882-lb. sledge. Temperatures dropping to as low as -68° F., gale-force winds and a blizzard also slowed down Uemura Though he wore modern thermal underwear, most of his clothing was Eskimo gear; bearskin trousers, sealskin mittens and fur-lined boots...
...show climaxes with a vast array of slides taken during the recent blizzard of locations throughout the University. Flashes of University Hall takeovers of the '60s and co-ed living of the '70s appear with appropriate rock music from both decades. This is pure Harvard, and no attempt is made to explain the significance of Radcliffe in these events...
...Governor's performance during the great blizzard last winter has made him politically invulnerable, Guzzi said, but Dukakis remains an enigma and a bit of a disappointment, he added...