Word: raine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fred Carlson is a stocky, sandy-haired man whose yellow rain suit gives him the appearance of a fire hydrant. He is standing in the doorway of the deer-checking station at Clinton, N.J., watching a cold rain that has fallen intermittently throughout the day. As a pickup truck driven by a man in a bright orange cap and jacket pulls up to the station, he puts down his soft-drink can, slips on a pair of heavy rubber gloves and steps out into the wet to watch while the team of state employees swing into action. The routine, already...
...they don't get a deer," says Frank Fennesz, 19, of Union City, as he hefts 113 Ibs. of venison-to-be back into the bed of his pickup. Fennesz's only complaint is the rainy weather, not be cause he minds getting wet but because rain turns dry, rustling leaves into a soundless carpet of mush. "If you don't see the deer, you can't hear them in weather like this." Chatting with one an other as they stand around in the glare of headlights and the harsh light of a gasoline lantern, most...
Burns has found all the Presidents to be courteous. Truman asked for an aide once but instructed Burns not to summon him to the phone if the fellow and his wife were having dinner. The morning that Tricia Nixon was to get married, the rain started and stopped several times, and plans for the Rose Garden ceremony teetered back and forth. Finally, Nixon called and politely asked, Operator, do you know if this wedding is going on today...
Flinty, arid Baluchistan is a sparsely populated land that only its sons could love. Corrugated by rugged mountain ranges, the area receives an average of 10 in. of rain a year, usually all at once, vs. 36.5 in. in more fertile northern Pakistan, near Kashmir. In summer, temperatures can rise to 130° F. In winter, they can fall to subfreezing levels. Desert scorpions and other noxious fauna abound. Prolonged exposure to Baluchistan can be fatal: when the army of Alexander the Great marched across it on the way home from India, two-thirds of the men died. But local...
...next three sides highlight individual performances. Gayle Moran's rendition of "Come Rain or Come Shine" falls flat--she should know enough to stay away from such a gutsy jazz singer's standard. Serenade features Joe Farrell's tenor sax, an undersung quantity if there ever was one. Stanley Clarke performs a lengthy acoustic bass solo that is more a technical coup than a creative improvisation. His sheer enthusiasm makes the cut listenable despite serious intonation problems. Corea begins the show's finale with a 17 minute piano solo. His playing is so damned interesting that he very nearly carries...