Word: overcasts
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...Force jet was heavily covered by the Secret Service, state and local police. Her limousine left Otis Air Force Base at high speed, driven by Secret Service Agent Clint Hill, whom she had pulled to her side in Dallas when the fatal shots rang out. The day was overcast, windy, chilly. Next week Jackie expects to return to Washington, supervise her move out of the White House and into a Georgetown house lent to her temporarily by Under Secretary of State Averell Harriman. Later she probably will buy a house of her own in Georgetown...
...still be regarded as a fine motion picture. When Claude Renoir opens the movie with a superb painting of yellow flowers, green fields, and turquoise sea, he sets up an artistic standard that is sustained throughout the picture. White and blue-gray winters, lugubrious shots of motley interiors, and overcast hunting scenes do at least as much to develop moods as the dialogue and acting. Though masterful in its own right, Renoir's delicate camerawork also does much to control the frail and precise despair that makers End of Desire an excellent movie...
Sunday morning, Sept. 15, was cool and overcast in Birmingham. Sunday school classes were just ending in the basement of the yellow brick 16th Street Baptist Church, the city's largest Negro church and the scene of several recent civil rights rallies. The morning's lesson was "The Love That Forgives," from the fifth chapter of Matthew.* Four girls ? Carole Robertson, 14, Cynthia Wesley, 14, Addie Mae Collins, 14, and Denise McNair, 11 ? left the classroom to go to the bathroom...
...Kennedy's blue Chrysler limousine pulled up to building 3707 at Otis Air Force Base. President Kennedy entered the squat, lime-hued hospital wing, emerged four minutes later, his left hand firmly clasp ing his wife's right. The sun had broken through a grey overcast. They looked, remarked a bystander, "like a couple of school kids." Thus Jackie Kennedy, smil ing faintly, went home last week, after the birth and death of her son Patrick...
...famous Journal, Delacroix records a number of love affairs, but the only one that lasted was with his "exigent mistress," painting. Wherever he looked-into an overcast sky, at a news item about a Turkish massacre, into the fragile face of his friend Chopin, or even into his own mirror-he saw things that addressed themselves "to the most intimate part of the soul." He was an expert draftsman who told his students, "If you are not clever enough to do a sketch of a man throwing himself out of a window during the time it takes him to fall...