Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another speech to make this afternoon, and my suit is going to be soggy and wet on that long plane ride back to Washington tonight." The folks returned to hear more. In a speech on Labor Day, he was at his evocative best. The morning rain, he whispered, had given way to the midday sunshine and the evening starlight because-well, because Fortune smiled on him and on the people of Illinois, and besides it was-the voice rose beatifically -Labor Day in America...
...student quarter, meanwhile, a Jerry stock market has been set up. Young German brokers buy and sell the chits that students receive when they are hired as extras. Each slip of paper entitles its bearer to work for one day for $7.50-or simply to collect $1.25 if it rains and shooting is called off. When the weather reports are favorable, chits are traded for as much as $2.50. Inclement offings will send the asking price plummeting as low as 50?. Of course the brokers take 10%, rain or shine...
...reporting this week's cover story on David Rockefeller, Correspondent Marshall Berges counts a rocky trip from New York to Maine with his subject aboard a Beechcraft. They put down at Rockland in rough weather. Unable to go on, they tramped up and down U.S. 1 in the rain, only to find every motel flashing a "No Vacancy" sign. "I wasn't really worried," says Berges. "I figured that if things really got desperate, Rockefeller would buy us a motel...
...Rain. Such protestations of innocence have not diluted the drought-stricken farmers' bitterness. In several towns, farmers have held protest meetings against seeding. In Falling Waters, W. Va.. Farmer Bruce Kitchen and two neighbors are collecting signatures on a petition in hopes of getting an anti-seeding bill introduced in the state legislature. Farmers have threatened to shoot at cloud-seeding planes. In Mercersburg, they were blamed for cutting down 138 plum trees belonging to Orchardist Henry Heisey; he decided to withdraw from the Weather Modification Association...
...greeted Ike as he landed in Dublin for a four-day visit. After a day's rest, he took off in a helicopter for the tiny village of Roundwood to visit former Irish President Sean O'Kelly. "I told you I was coming," Ike grinned, the rain streaming down his face. Inside, the two old friends chatted for an hour over warming mugs of coffee, then he returned to Dublin, for a round of golf that was cut short after six holes because everyone was soaked to the skin. Next day, his nostalgic 2,000-mile tour...