Word: raining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Come what might-or May-much of the nation was caught up in the spirit of renewal. When the wet season in Northern California turned up bone dry, about 2,000 San Franciscans, a few dressed in foul-weather gear, staged a modern rain dance in the Hyatt Regency hotel. They foxtrotted to Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head, April Showers and Stormy Weather. The dance was not dry; the weather stayed...
Although snow flurries chilled Chicago, some 200,000 people attended the Chicago Horticultural Society's annual flower and garden show. Farmers in nearby states looked contentedly at leaden skies, which dropped enough rain or snow to bring new hope for decent crops to the parched plains of Kansas, Iowa, the Dakotas, Nebraska and Minnesota. "It came just the way we like it, nice and slow," Iowa Hog Farmer Bob Helmbrecht said of the springtime moisture. A National Weather Bureau official called it simply "a godsend...
Hailstones the size of baseballs smashed into the Southern Airways DC-9 so hard that they cracked the pilot's 1½-in.-thick windshield. Turbulence tossed the jet wildly, and the rain was so heavy that it was later described as "a wall of water." First the left engine failed, then the right. Fighting for control, Pilot William McKenzie, 54, tried to glide the 25-ton plane to a safe landing...
...problems that brought the DC-9 hurtling out of the sky at 150 m.p.h. The engine was one of the most reliable ever made: Pratt & Whitney's JT8D7, now used by some 2,800 aircraft all over the world. Never in 112 million hours of flying time had rain or hail caused one of these engines-let alone two-to "flame out" (quit). Federal air-safety experts discovered that the engines had ingested a great deal of water and overheated, but they were not sure of the exact reason for the flameouts...
When in Rome..., but when in San Francisco, improvise. At least that was what Italian Director Lina Wertmuller did on the set of A Night Full of Rain. While shooting a scene with Actor Gianearlo Giannini atop a 52-story skyscraper, Lina decided that the Bank of America building simply wasn't high enough. "I had to stand on top of an 18-ft. tower she had built on top of it," complains Giancarlo, who starred in Seven Beauties, Swept Away and three other Wertmuller movies. "That's typical of Lina, to alter everything she finds, even...