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Under a light drizzle, play began at Annapolis on Saturday. Levin faced Midshipman Bobby Cowan, ranked fourth in the Middle Atlantic states. Levin lost, 6-2, 6-1, breaking two rackets in the first set. A heavy downpour halted play before any other matches were completed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Team Returns from South, Prepares for MIT, Amherst, Penn | 4/7/1969 | See Source »

...will one who is coatless, as long as he suggests by his deportment-hunched shoulders, an impromptu newspaper umbrella-that he is alive to his predicament. So will arm-locked young lovers, sublimely indifferent to their drenching. But someone who walks along unprotected and apparently unaware of the downpour is likely to evoke a startled and uneasy response...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sociology: Exploring a Shadow World | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...eight weeks in a row, torrential cloudbursts washed across Tanzania. Cattle, goats, chickens and a few humans were swept away in the resulting floods. Roads and bridges crumbled, and vehicles were trapped in a deepening ooze. But through most of the downpour, some 1,200 African tribesmen and Italian workers doggedly continued to lay down six miles of pipeline a day. If they manage to stick to their schedule, "the Great Snake," as the natives call the $45 million project, will be completed in June. Stretching 1,058 miles across mountains and marshes, through thick jungle and dusty scrubland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Construction: Monuments Round the World | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

Originally planned to take place a week ago Sunday, it succumbed to the climate of animosity that has confronted peace demonstrations all year--it was rained out. Moustachoied advocates of the conspiracy theory report they spotted planes sporting the emblem of the Commonwealth seeeding the clouds minutes before the downpour...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: Pennies for Peace | 5/27/1968 | See Source »

...Florida, voter apathy-together with a torrential rainstorm-may have cost another Johnson man, former (1955-61) Democratic Governor LeRoy Collins, 59, his expected senatorial nomination. While the downpour (2.27 in. in Miami) in the state's populous southern tip kept many of Collins' supporters home, good weather in the rest of the state did nothing to hinder his conservative opponent, Attorney General Earl Faircloth, 47. Collins missed a majority by a mere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Rain & Rebuff | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

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