Word: raines
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Nothing in the U.S. arsenal packs the concentrated firepower of the old World War II battleships. With their 20 deadly accurate five-inchers and nine 16-in. guns-twice as big as any still active in the Navy-they can rain 2,400-lb. projectiles at the rate of 27 a minute on coastal targets 25 miles away. In an age of nuclear weapons, such firepower seemed puny a decade ago when the last of the mighty battlewagons, the 45,000-ton Wisconsin, left the Navy. Last week the Defense Department allocated $800,000 for preliminary de-mothballing...
...weather was not just unseasonable-it was downright unreasonable. El Paso had its driest spring in 63 years, while Southern California never had a colder or a wetter April. Snow fell in Reno on the last day of May, and the Indianapolis auto race was delayed by rain for the first time in 52 years. Across the mainland, temperatures ran as much as 9° below normal and, on many days, Fairbanks, Alaska, boasted warmer temperatures than Manhattan. In the nation's rain-soaked capital, the Washington Post complained editorially: "We are growing a little moldy...
Seducing the Diehards. For the budget-minded, refurbishing old buses is the cheapest route to luxury camping. "We went tenting in the Smoky Mountains one time and spent an entire week inside the tent in the rain," recalls Bill Roberts of Clearwater, Fla. No more. Roberts and his wife spent $2,000 buying and transforming an old bus into a mobile three-room apartment, now go out almost every weekend with friends who own similar rigs. Camper buses are ideal for families with children. Reason: the kids get less restless en route because they have room to play...
Poets, their heads being in the clouds, are those who see whales and camels where others see only a chance of rain. That is why poets will always be more important than meteorologists. Poetry is a great imponderable, since it describes and changes the climate of the mind. It is a touchstone by which the spiritual condition of man may be tested...
...Wise won the only one for Harvard. At Princeton, Mike Ezell, at number six, pushed his man for three and a half hours before losing a heartbreaking match. The Choate defeat, a 9-0 whitewash, was even more humiliating. "We were leading in every match when it started to rain, and we came back and lost them all," Wynn said...