Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congo, it rained all week. Flash floods washed out streets of Leopoldville's native city, where hundreds of huts slowly caved in under the ceaseless downpour. In Coquilhatville, striking civil servants who had not been paid for three months gave up their picketing in the driving rain and stayed indoors. This was the land of crisis, the subject of endless U.N. debates, but on the scene it wore a lethargic...
...Damp Crocodile. Rain was falling as the marchers entered London, and the Daily Telegraph's Peter Simple acidly described the march as "a damp crocodile, four-fifths of them teen-agers living on sausages, posing for photographs." But many were sincere pacifists and idealists. Inevitably, too,,some Communists joined the march, and Moscow and Peking radios gave the demonstrations a big play as symbolizing British sentiment...
...before a concert, Pianist Byron Janis calls the weather bureau. A forecast of rain depresses him, chiefly because it depresses the piano, robbing it of the brilliance and agility that are the hallmarks of Janis' style. On the other hand, dry, clear weather of the kind that prevailed the evening he played with the Boston Symphony in Carnegie Hall last week is just what Janis needs. With the temperature in the 405, the moon radiant and the barometer steady, Janis played with feeling and virtuoso flair through Liszt's Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2. His piano sound...
...doesn't rain, MIT will put a Norwegian sophomore named Ben Aasnaes at number one for the match with the Crimson's Paul Sullivan. The Engineer's number two man--captain Bob Padik--will meet Harvard's Bob Bowditch. These same four players will have another crack at each other in the first doubles match...
...Rain was falling on Laos last week. The nights were cold, the war was bogged down in mud. and only the Americans were doing any work...