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Sheep Crossing. Previously famed mainly as Ludwig van Beethoven's birthplace, Bonn today is known to diplomats as the most inconvenient, uncomfortable capital this side of Usumbura. True, the Rhine offers a lovely, healing view to harassed government types, but Bonn is Germany's rainiest (161.8 days a year) and most densely populated city; its traffic is the heaviest, its rentals among the highest. "The city is just half the size of Chicago's Central Cemetery," says a U.S. diplomat. "And twice as dead...
...varsity hockey team took on the White Mules of Colby College last night in some of the rainiest hockey weather you'll ever see. The rain didn't seem to bother the Crimson--perhaps because they were playing indoors--and before the game was over they had slapped seven goals past goalie Larry Sawler to hand Colby their fourth straight loss of the season. Colby scored once...
...loaded with instruments to observe the earth, the high atmosphere and influences from space. But other programs are hardly less glamorous. Eleven nations have planned or set up stations on the hostile Antarctic Continent. The Arctic is getting similar close attention. So are unfrequented parts of the oceans, the rainiest tropical forests and the driest deserts...
...Crimson, further handicapped by the rainiest May in Boston's rainy history, has massed several games and innumerable practice sessions this spring. And even this afternoon the weather bureau has announced a third starting pitcher, Jupiter Pluvius, whose efforts could conceivably preclude the appearance of Cooke and Mackenzie...
...fortnight after St. Swithin's Day, rain fell eleven days. New Jersey was soggy after the worst floods in four decades. At Little Falls, the Passaic River washed out a railroad bridge, leaving only the tracks swaying above the swollen current (see cut). New Orleans sloshed through its rainiest July ever (14 inches plus). When a man in Minneapolis ran out of ice cubes, his mother-in-law dashed into the backyard, picked up a handful of hailstones. It was no legend, but a fact, that the U.S. had had unusual weather since the hottest March on record...