Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...going under water every year. There are some 80,000 private pools, and new pool permits are issued at a rate of 12,000 a year. Two out of every nine pool owners in the U.S. live there and cavort in 1,600,000,000 gallons of precious rain water brought in by aqueduct every day. But into every pool of rain water somebody's little life may fall. From 1952 to 1959, 102 people drowned in the backyard. And the present accident rate costs Los Angeles some 30 lives a year. By law, pool owners must fence pools...
...Rain, always a challenge to an actress who has to be bad-good and an actor who has to be good-bad, with Edie Adams and Ralph Meeker. Warren, Ohio, through July...
...called upon to stage a public song burning. In the America that Walt Whitman heard singing, New Hampshire's Hutchinson Family drew abolitionist admirers like William Lloyd Garrison. Today's folk singers are lyrically lashing out at everything from nuclear fallout (What Have They Done to the Rain?) and the American Medical Association ("We really love to stitch/ The diseases of the rich"), to direct-digit dialing ("560 million, 900,000 more, 137, extension 24"). But not since labor's big national organizing drive of the 1930s, when nearly everyone in the country knew at least...
...gearbox suddenly seized while he was leading the Grand Prix of Monaco. Then, on Memorial Day, Clark tried his hand at Indianapolis in a specially built Lotus-Ford, came in second in a controversial race many people think he should have won. He has not lost since. In the rain-drenchec Belgian Grand Prix, he led from start to finish while holding his loose gear lever in place with one hand, steering with the other, and trailing a 20-ft.-long rooster tail of spray. The following week he scored another victory at Zandvoort in the Dutch Grand Prix...
Milt Jackson usually plays the vibraharp with the Modern Jazz Quartet, and he is the only factor preventing that group from losing touch completely with the roots of jazz. He seemed much more at home with Dizzy Gillespie. Jackson's flawless, effortless improvisations flowed like fresh, clean rain...