Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bevy of lesser ladies in waiting. At the Jeu de Paume Museum, French Minister for Culture André Malraux whisked her past the collection of impressionist paintings in a breakneck 45 minutes. "I have just seen the most beautiful paintings in the world," gasped Jackie as she returned to the rain-splashed street. (Her favorite: Olympia, a reclining nude by Manet...
Except for the warming gleam in Jacqueline Kennedy's eye, it was a chilly, depressing week in Paris. Day followed day of lowering clouds and slanting rain. Though large crowds gamely lined the boulevards to cheer the closed limousines that splashed by. Parisians were preoccupied by their own multitudinous problems-Algeria, the restive French army, the treason of the generals which led to April's clumsy insurrection in Algiers...
...Yale meet seemed likely to be an anti-climax to a season that already held all it could. But the team's relaxed attitude paid off, and no one was more surprised than the squad itself and coaches Bill McCurdy and Ed Stowell. The Crimson was unfazed by the rain and cold that forced both trials and finals to be crammed into one day and made conditions miserable...
While disappointments and problems were zooming around him recently, President John Kennedy told a White House liaison man: "I'm damned if I don't feel like that cartoon character in Li'l Abner who's always wandering around with a rain cloud over his head...
...much of the U.S., the spring of 1961 consisted of rain, rain and more rain. But not in the Far West, a land where water is life-and, in many places, disaster is building...