Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Berlin was no longer the sole danger point. In Washington's "Crisis Center," State Department intelligence experts kept a weather eye on the rain in Laos, where the monsoon-and perhaps an uneasy truce-will end later this month. From the stalled peace talks in Geneva, roving Ambassador Averell Harriman flew to Southeast Asia in an all-but-hopeless effort to establish accord with Sovietsupported Prince Souvanna Phouma, Laos' prospective Premier...
...explosive that burned but did not bang, examined the site a half mile away where an accomplice had flashed his auto headlights to warn of the approach of the President's speeding caravan. Police guessed that the charge had been buried for days, failed to go off because rain had dampened its mechanism. Implicated in the plot was a ragtag crowd that included an insurance salesman from Sèvres, a buxom, blonde vaudeville magician who lived with a houseful of cats, dogs and parrots, a 45-year-old woman who sold string, and a thin, nervous onetime radio...
Hurricane Carla, which smashed into Texas last week, was a whirling doughnut of wind, but like most hurricanes it used water to do its worst damage. Torrential rain raced ahead of the storm, giving Gulf Coast lowlands a preliminary flooding. Then, while the eye of the hurricane was still well offshore, great, white-topped waves cruised out of the sea and crashed across the land. Coastal settlements were washed out; those lying farther inland were flooded by fast-flowing water and picked to pieces by the screaming wind. Buildings that might have been strong enough to stand up to Carla...
Despite the rain trickling down from a train trestle overhead, some 200 people last week gathered around a sound truck on a Bronx street to hear New York City's Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner plead for reelection. Smiling painfully, Wagner shook a few hands, then launched into a pallid denunciation of New York's Democratic machine bosses. The audience response, at best, was mixed. An enthusiastic urchin yelled: "Yay for Wag'ner baby!" A tenement dweller shouted down from his window: "Get outa here, yah bum!" In the crowd, a heckler chanted a bitter litany: "New York...
...neared Sola, the weather worsened. Fog shrouded the fjords and the airfield; a 70-m.p.h. wind and rain buffeted the plane, lashed the ocean below into scudding foam. The pilot. Captain Philip Watts, radioed Sola, reported. "I can't see a thing." and said that he would make an instrument letdown. He made one futile pass, headed back out to sea to start another approach. "Cleared to descend to 1,400 feet." advised the Sola tower. There was no reply. Next morning, after an all-night sea and air search, the fire-gutted wreckage of "Papa Mike" was found...