Word: snow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Africa, he says, was he ever in quite as much danger as he was in last week, while visiting Alaska. With the aid of TIME'S Anchorage Stringer, Joe Rychetnik, Mannock wangled his way into some winter war games. "It was so cold out there in the snow," says Mannock, "all you could think about was staying alive...
...striving to erect a tent in -40°. Two companies of "aggressors," dropped by parachute, endured the equivalent of -175° F. as they hit the icy prop wash of their aircraft. But the cold was no deterrent to the paratroopers. Mushing ten miles on skis through deep powder snow at 53 below zero, dragging their survival kits on Ahkio sleds, 16 troopers pulled off a brilliant nighttime surprise attack on the headquarters of Brigadier General John C. Bennett, field commander of the maneuvers. In order to "get the feel of the place," Bennett had been sleeping in a tent...
...building and designed to process people and baggage. To the machine, there is no difference between men, women, children, suitcases, pets. All are collected, screened according to route, classified by status, divided into units of the right size, packaged in aircraft-and shipped. When 17 inches of drifting snow clogged the runways and access roads of John F. Kennedy airport, 6,000 people were forced to exist inside nine broken machines. And, because of the incredible slowness of Mayor John Lindsay's snow-removal machinery, they were prisoners there for three days...
Sunday, Laven reviewed The Light Company's finances; Monday and Tuesday, performances were cancelled because of the snow; Wednesday, Leven met with his backers and The Light Company officially blacked...
THIS WEEK'S SNOWSTORM could have easily been scripted by French playwright Jean Anouilh. Sunday night, Act I, everything transformed--fences, archways, and street signs--into a campus-wide version of Zhivago's ice palace. But, over the next two days, the scene changed as the snow melted into sluggish tears, the tears turning into rivers of slush and mud. By mid-week and the final curtain, all had frozen. Ice. The trees--their branches torn and crippled and frozen--stood out in painful ugliness against a threatening...