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...first twin, Jon, dueled Crimson junior Jeff Campbell for first-place honors throughout the downpour. At the three-mile mark, he took the lead from Campbell and held it until the finish, winning with a time of 26:50, 14 seconds ahead of Campbell...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Huskies Dodge Deluge, Crimson Harriers, 25-30 | 9/25/1975 | See Source »

Night cracks day in Indiana; the sky explodes in Illinois. Chicago passes--a straining of the eye through the white glare of churned downpour. The Mississippi folds under a sheet-white concrete bridge with the decorum of 1 a.m. silence. Iowa flows through the early morning on the wave-crackling radio...

Author: By Edmund Horsey, | Title: Elsewhere in the Summer, and an Elk Head | 7/15/1975 | See Source »

Embree leapt over a field of 46 to be one of the final 12 qualifiers. His qualifying height was 7ft. 1 in. but that was as high as he was to go, as a torrential downpour washed out his chances at the title...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Embree Leaps to Sixth In NCAA Track Meet; Niemi Finishes Tenth | 6/10/1975 | See Source »

...Even the heavens are weeping for President Chiang." That was the poetic phrase used by many Chinese in Taipei last week to describe the incessant downpour that accompanied the paying of respects to the late President Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, April 14). For many-especially the veteran Nationalists who followed Chiang to Taiwan after the Communists took control of the mainland in 1949-his passing was a wrenching emotional experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAIWAN: Surviving with the Other Chiang | 4/21/1975 | See Source »

...ARRIVED in a downpour of majestic proportions in the magic city of Nashville. The Nashville I was looking for was the Nashville of an old Hank Williams and a new Waylon Jennings. I wanted to see performers whose edges were finely honed and who seemed to spring from the country, and made no accommodations for television in their performances. The Nashville Nick had come to find was part of the vast network of motel people. He had come to apply for work in one of the newly-opening prestige chains, fixed with glowing references from his employers in Florida. This...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: The Power of Love: A Nashville Lightning Storm | 4/18/1975 | See Source »

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