Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Riding home through rain-soaked Washington in his Justice Department limousine one evening last week, Attorney General Robert Kennedy turned to a companion, said matter-of-factly: "I don't think there is much future for me in this city...
...first waves began arriving on Saturday, black-jacketed Rockers by the hundreds, parka-clad Mods by the thousands. By Sunday morning, Hastings swarmed with teen-age Beatles and their birds, scruffy and wild-haired after all-night nesting on the beach. To add to the general misery, a light rain was falling. Suddenly, the kids began ranging through town in packs, stopping traffic, banging on cars, chanting ("Up the Mods"), looking for trouble. They raided cafes for dishes and glasses to throw, knives and forks to brandish, chased each other up the beaches and down the streets under a hail...
Stubbed Toes. If the American works for raises and promotion, the European works for his vacation, and he wants it in August. It has done no good to point out that Nice is nicer in July, with more sun and less rain than in August, or that Spanish beaches are pleasanter in June and September than in midsummer. No one listens. Of France's 8,000,000 autos, 4,000,000 were on the road last week-filled with potato salad, crying children, accordion maps and cursing drivers. Seven million campers pitched their tents on 8,400 acres...
Back with the rain came Premier Lai Bahadur Shastri, 59, looking none the worse for his apparently mild heart attack. Bustling in and out of his office, he paid two long visits to President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, presided over a lengthy cabinet meeting, tartly denied that he had been totally incapacitated while ill, insisted that he had worked seven hours a day at home during the later stages of his convalescence...
...high priests (Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and Odetta) filled the cloudy sky with music. And none did it with more urgency or passion than the slight blonde girl in the pink dress who hoisted a guitar twice her size and greeted the first drops of rain with a voice that built a shelter for her audience...