Word: snow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge fireman tried to save Swamy's notes by rushing into the burning building and throwing some papers out the window. They landed in the snow, however, and Swamy says he will have to wait until the snow melts to find them...
Mufflered pedestrians looked like Napoleon's army fleeing Russia as they scrambled past the frozen corpses of cars stranded in the snow...
...mercury plunged as low as -20 in suburban areas last night. Some letup is forecast for today, but more snow is expected Wednesday...
...Resignation. C rations came in handy to ranches isolated by flood- level runoff from the snow, which cut U.S. Highway 66 along much of its Arizona course. A man in Miami, Ariz., was rescued by choppers, but his pet monkey was found frozen to death, hanging by its tail from a tree. Other Navajos like Lily Crookedfinger, 90, and the Tsosie brothers were less fortunate: they died of exposure in the high country. Sheepherder Joe Shaggy, 25, weathered the blast though several of his woolies froze to death...
...newsmen were ordered to keep off the roads and stay close to Algiers. Colonel Tahar Zbiri, the army chief of staff, was in hiding after attempting a coup, and with him had gone many of Algeria's top officers. Troops loyal to President Houari Boumediene combed the snow-covered mountain range where Zbiri was last seen, and the government ordered a nationwide manhunt for a list of civilian plotters that included Boumediene's Labor Minister Abdelaziz Zerdani. Flamboyant but Uneducated. Tensions between Boumediene and his army chief had been building ever since the two men combined their forces...