Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headed west to the solace of the silent spaces of the North Dakota Territory. "Black care," he said, "rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough." There T.R. ran the Maltese Cross and Elkhorn cattle ranches (see color pages), rode the range beneath springtime stars and winter snow-dust, got sworn in as a deputy sheriff by Sheriff "Hell-Roaring Bill" Jones, and generally gathered in the feel of what he called "the masterful, overbearing spirit of the West ... the possession of which is certainly a most healthy sign of the virile strength of a young community...
...change pace, Borge sat down and did some serious playing (the best: a Gershwin medley done while cameras ghosted through Manhattan streets that the composer once prowled). Even the commercials were fun. When Borge showed a picture of his Pontiac. it turned out to be a mound of snow. "The bad thing, of course," he confided, "is that my wife is still in it." As always, he wrapped up the show with a farewell line gilding sentiment with a gag: "When a hand comes out and wipes away a tear, that's my reward. The rest goes...
...Heavy snows, high winds and subnormal temperatures last week brought Eastern railroads-and their chilled passengers-their worst disaster in years. Nine inches of snow piled up in Manhattan, 13 inches in Philadelphia, and 14 inches in Washington, D.C., and no icicle-encrusted Lower Slobbovians were ever more solidly snowbound. Groaned one passenger who spent 13½ hours (instead of four) between Washington and New York: "A few inches of snow-and blooey...
Last week the South had barely brushed itself off from a freeze and a light snow-which, among other things, broke up a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans and drove vacationing President Eisenhower indoors at Thomasville, Ga.-when a violent new storm boiled up off the Louisiana coast. Mixing its Gulf moisture with the cold arctic air, it swept north and east, dumping the season's heaviest snowfall from Jackson, Miss, on up into Maine. Temperatures sank to a bitter subfreezing all along the path, sank lower in its wake...
...Charles P. Snow, British physicist and novelist, and Norman F. Ramsey, professor of Physics, who was recently appointed chief scientific adviser to NATO, will argue for the shift in emphasis...