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Watershed. In Hartford, Conn., weathermen of the Connecticut Valley branch of the American Meteorological Society, rained out in 1955, announced that they had reserved for their annual picnic an "area with indoor facilities...
Dean Lacey has pointed out, for instance, that the "sheer force of numbers" would prevent Harvard from holding an outdoor picnic for the entire sophomore class as Radcliffe did this spring. "I doubt if Mr. Trottenberg would want to serve chicken in the Yard," she said...
...about to put on the most up-to-date performance of them all. Would it be the first test of the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile? Or one of the little ones? Near Cocoa, Cocoa Beach, Melbourne and Rockledge, the lady watchers came out on the public beaches munching picnic lunches, and casually waited for the answer...
...separate answering notes, the U.S. and British ambassadors told what really happened. One sunny afternoon Group Captain Masterman and Colonel Teberg, out for a picnic in the countryside, were driving along the main highway north of Prague in Masterman's car. At a crossroads near Milovice they were stopped by a military policeman and directed to turn off down a side road that bordered on an airfield. About 500 yds. down the road, Masterman found his progress blocked by an army truck planted in the middle of the road. He stopped. Before he could turn around, another truck drove...
Shrieking cheers of gratitude for their benefactor, 25,000 yelping children and their mothers clambered and danced through the meadows of Manhattan's summer-striped Central Park. It was a grand picnic-the 22nd annual June Walk of the Monongahela Club. Round-faced, genial James J. Hines eased a piggybacking child from his shoulders, doffed his straw boater, wiped the sweat from his face and said proudly: "Kids who came to the first of these things are voters now. They're not all voting my district, but they're voting somewhere...