Word: downpour
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...charity gala in Monte Carlo, such celebrities as the Begum Aga Khan and Cinemactor David Niven were nicely sprinkled amidst 1,000 unknowns who paid $75 to dance and watch the Bluebell Girls of Paris prance. To the sprinkle, hélas, was added a spatter and then a downpour. The Prince looked a trifle Rainier than usual, but Princess Grace, 34, remained smilingly in place to the end of the show. Noblesse was scarcely obliged to make so gracious a gesture-what with a third addition to the royal family due in Monaco next February...
Endless armadas of heavy monsoon clouds bombarded central India with the heaviest rains in a century (187.7 in. since June), bringing new life to the parched plains. Everywhere shining green shoots burst; from the fields. In Delhi, the poor took shelter from the downpour, thankful for relief from incessant heat. Outside the capital, amidst the ruins of forts and royal tombs, peacocks spread their glistening fans and danced for their mates...
Cars spun along the strip, crashed, smashed, shattered, splintered, and stopped in a downpour of metal and glass. It looked like Indianapolis all over again, but the site was East Haddam, Conn., the event no sport but an experiment in automobile survival staged by the state police department to prove its contention that small cars are more vulnerable than standard models...
...Funny Girl, a spun caduceus of Barbra Streisand the comic nut and Barbra Streisand the incomparable singer; Barbra Streisand in combat boots with red, white and blue bagels at her hips ("I'm Private Schvartz from Rock-avay"); Barbra Streisand throwing her head back and really bringing a downpour with Don't Rain on My Parade. Her best comic scene is one in which Sydney Chaplin (as Nicky) comes to life long enough to seduce her. She joins him in a private dining room in a restaurant. "That color is wonderful with your eyes," he tells her. "Just...
...International Airport and banked left on course for Toronto 320 miles to the southwest. Four minutes later, townsfolk in Ste. Thérèse de Blainville heard a thunderous explosion as the plane slammed into a muddy field. The kerosene-fed fire raged for hours, despite the heavy downpour...