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Inside the Cloud. Everyone hoped for cleansing rains. Instead, the city was afflicted with brief, tantalizing cloudbursts that dripped soot out of the sky onto people's clothes. One downpour temporarily knocked out power lines in three boroughs and Westchester County, leaving nearly 10,000 families without electricity-and air conditioning. But most of the time, a dull, maddening haze obscured the sky. "It looked awful," said Pilot-Photographer Tony Linck, after he had helicoptered around Manhattan in midweek, on assignment for TIME. "It was like flying inside a yellow-gray cloud. We had to fly by compass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Misery in New York | 8/10/1970 | See Source »

...Heath" while calculating the size of Wilson's victory. Late in the campaign, Heath made a painful effort to unbend a little, but even that sometimes backfired. When TV cameramen swarmed out of a campaign bus to snap Heath in the extraordinary act of kissing a child, a sudden downpour sent everyone running for cover. "If I had any doubts before," muttered one newsman, "now I know: Harold Wilson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Unexpected Triumph | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

...week, a liquid-hydrogen fuel tank had sprung a leak and threatened to delay the launch. Now, less than an hour before the late-morning blastoff, dark clouds rolled ominously across the last patches of blue in the Florida sky; a drizzling rain turned into a heavy downpour that virtually blotted pad 39A from view. But NASA officials, buoyed by a long string of space successes, were undaunted by the dangerous omens. The order was given to proceed. More reliable than any commuter train, the 11:22 moon rocket departed from Cape Kennedy. It was on schedule to the split...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moon: Toward the Ocean of Storms | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

THIRD DAY. A chill, gusty rain whipped through the trees. "This is good," said Fred. "The deer's vision will be dimmed by raindrops on their eyelashes." Toward nightfall, as the downpour subsided into a fine mist, Fred spied a big buck munching on ground hemlock 80 yards away. Slowly, silently, Fred positioned his razorhead arrow and watched for five, ten, 20 excruciating minutes as the buck worked his way toward the clearing. But suddenly, he jerked his head, wriggled his nose, and was off into the bush. "Damn!" exclaimed Fred as he huddled over the camp stove. "With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunting: Of Bear, Bow & Buck | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...moderate of the S.D.S. factions, found themselves outnumbered when they attempted to "take over" Cook County Criminal Court Building. They had to content themselves with predictable speeches to a generally indifferent audience before heeding police instructions to move on. Even the elements seemed to be against the Weathermen. A downpour washed out another attempt to hold a rally in Lincoln Park, scattering demonstrators and inspiring the Chicago Sun-Times to report: "The revolution was called on account of rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago: Poor Climate for Weathermen | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

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