Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...droppeth like the gentle rain from heaven." What a lot of hooey. The rain came down in buckets yesterday afternoon, and washed out the Harvard-Yale baseball game despite the best efforts of all concerned...
Seldom if ever had a new state come into being with less enthusiasm or more foreboding. As Republic Day began, cold, drenching rain poured down on Pretoria's windswept streets, reducing the joyous church bells to sodden thumps and the cannon booms to distant plops. A quarter of a million people had been expected to jam the city for the big celebration, but only 25.000 showed up in time for the speeches. Braving the elements. 6-ft. 7-in. Charles ("Blackie") Swart stepped forward solemnly to take the oath as the nation's first President...
...unwritten law that U.S. Presidents cannot be seen hanging around race tracks. For eight years, while he was President, Dwight D. Eisenhower hewed to convention. But last week, Horse Fancier Eisenhower (he has quarter horses at his Gettysburg, Pa., farm) stood in the rain at New York's Belmont Park with 51,585 other breed improvers to watch the 93rd running of the Belmont Stakes. For Ike, as for everyone else, the star attraction was Carry Back-a little, long-tailed colt who had won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness. and needed only the Belmont to become the first...
...inspection turn out to be the gnarled claws of an old witch. A poster for a Federico Fellini film on the demoralization of youth shows youth as a bird hovering over a twisted treelike abstraction symbolizing society. A music festival is announced by a semiabstract landscape still wet with rain and crowned with lowering clouds. Across this tense scene that hovers between sun and storm is written, in an elegant 19th century hand, the signature "F. Chopin." A poster for an exhibition commemorating the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Polish Communist Party is a subtle and muted tribute...
Pack & Preserve. The dismantling took five months. Every part of the apse was measured, every stone numbered and painstakingly packed in boxes. At The Cloisters, the stones were treated with a secret preservative to protect them against the cold, rain and city smoke. In January 1959 workmen began laying the foundation stones, at first without mortar, to test their fit to the new site. After corrections for the contours of the old site and for the distortions caused by centuries of settling, the walls slowly rose, set this time in a thin layer of mortar. When they reached the high...