Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hong Kong Bureau Chief Mohr had planned a farewell party for Schecter, who is leaving for a year's Nieman Fellowship at Harvard. Both found themselves wholly preoccupied with the Mme. Nhu story in Saigon, so the Hong Kong party for 48 guests took place last week without either the guest of honor or the host. But Mohr reassured Schecter (a father of five) that the hours spent with Mme. Nhu would at least leave him well prepared for dealing with "the callow girls of Radcliffe...
...prove it, he said he would make it rain in Tulsa within 72 hours after any day and hour that Gordon cared to name. Gordon amiably agreed to specify a time, reported the incident in his column. Within the designated 72 hours, it rained. The local U.S. Weather Bureau office had predicted that no rain at all would fall in Tulsa that...
...parched by the drought that has afflicted much of the Midwest and West this year. In June and again in early July, the man telephoned Gordon and promised to make it rain. Both times Gordon listed the agreed-upon dates in his column, and both times, contrary to Weather Bureau predictions, rain fell within 72 hours...
...mass of hot and humid air that has been making life miserable for the past five days isn't long for this part of the world, if the Weather Bureau's predictions are correct. A cold front was heroically sweeping down from the Great Lakes last night, and by this afternoon it should establish itself firmly in the Cambridge area...
...spokesman for the Weather Bureau was happy to talk about the cold front, but when asked how long the respite will last, he clammed up. "No comment," he said...