Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soloists include George Kirklin '59, Samuel Kim '58, and Edward Martin '60. Conductor of the Summer Band, which is in its first season, is Bernard Wiseblatt '57. In the event of rain the concert will be held in Sanders Theatre...
...drizzly day at Longchamp racetrack, a resplendent Aly Khan and his handsome son Prince Karim, the Aga Khan, were on hand to watch the running of the Grand Prix de Paris. Like any solicitous father, Aly unfurled his big topcoat to shield Karim from the rain. It was one of their few public appearances together since Karim became Aly's own spiritual ruler, helped dispel rumors that they have not hit it off well lately...
...almost rainless climate to the cold Peru Current sweeping up from Antarctica. Once in every ten years or so, a current of warm water called El Nino (because it appears near Christmas, the birthday of El Nino, the Christ child) creeps stealthily down the coast. With it come tropical rains and disaster. Floods roar through dry valleys. Buildings not designed for rain leak or collapse. Worst of all, the warm water, which is only 100 feet deep, drives cold-water fish below the surface. Peru's famous guano birds, which feed on the fish, starve by the million, heaping...
...Dick Borden. "Naturally," he argued, in a massive non sequitur, "they would prefer to see men weathercasters on television." So Atlantic proposes to plug a new style: accurate, unadorned reporting. From now on, the company's meteorological M.C.s will show fog on their charts as = , drizzle will be , rain ∙, snow ∙, showers ∇, hail ∆, lightning ∠, thunderstorms β, hurricanes ∮. Using such symbols, weather prophets may or may not convince the public that they really know the difference between a snowstorm, say, and a Scotch mist. But it is doubtful that they will ever adequately replace...
...everybody talks about the weather, and everybody tries to do something different about it. Television weather shows range from Milwaukee's Bill Carlsen squirting up a shaving-cream snowstorm to Manhattan's arch, smock-coated Tex Antoine drooping a cartoon mustache to pass the same word about rain. There have been politicians (Maryland's Senator John Marshall Butler once sponsored a nightly weather roundup as a campaign gimmick), puppets, and above all, dolls. As one of the largest sponsors of TV weather programs (36 on local stations in the East), the Atlantic Refining Co. has tried...