Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from my friends." This is followed by a fantasy, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," which is followed by a shaky hope that after a lousy childhood things are "Getting Better, since you've been mine"; followed by a song about "fixing a hole" to keep out the gloomy rain from a wandering, searching mind; followed by a song about a girl eloping from her home, due to parental lack of understanding; followed by a first act finale, where the record goes back to its public mood and promises the audience "a splendid time is guaranteed...
...years since relatively light-skinned Mongols crossed from Siberia to Alaska and spread southward to Tierra del Fuego, there has been a natural selection in favor of the darker-skinned Amerindians between 40° north and 40° south latitude. Outside these boundaries, and in most of the dark rain forests of Brazil, the Indians are not appreciably darker than most Asiatic Mongols...
...week for the funeral of the last sole ruler of the Ruhr's most powerful industrial dynasty. After the eulogies, a Krupp band struck up a miners' song called Glueck Auf (Good Fortune) and led the way out through a crowd to a hearse waiting in the rain. Behind followed ten Krupp miners bearing the oaken casket. Visibly in tears was Krupp's longtime confidant, Berthold Beitz, 53, a non-Krupp whose task now is to set up a foundation that will oversee the beleaguered empire...
...Group f/64" with Edward Weston, became an advocate and practitioner of "straight" photography. Nevertheless, his pictures at times achieve the character of abstract paintings. The enlarged wood-grains of "Detail of Old Wooden Cross' are the strokes of the painter's brush. The suppression of the background of "Rain Forest Kileuea" into middle grays sets off the few black tree trunks in the foreground and gives the jungle a surrealistic quality reminiscent of the paintings of Rousseau...
...West Virginia mountains, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, 55, paused along the Cacapon River, fell into conversation with Douglas Dolan, a postmaster who owns property there. Suddenly a shout went up that two of Dolan's nieces, Deborah, 12, and Nancy, 21, were being swept downstream by the rain-swollen current. The Secretary stripped to his shorts, plunged into the river, overtook the girls and held them steady in the swirling water until a motorboat could get to them. "I was about to go under for the last time," said Debbie, "and Nancy...