Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much photographed Verrazano Bridge can be found in Forss's display, but this time with a small starburst of sunlight piercing one of its uprights. And, yes, there is a winter scene in Central Park, rendered as a child with a very experienced eye might see it: the snow white, the background buildings dark and brooding...
DIED. Pamela Hansford Johnson, 69, British novelist, critic and playwright and the wife of Scientist-Novelist C.P. Snow for 30 years until his death in 1980; in London. A full-time writer from the age of 22, Johnson turned out 27 novels, the last, A Bonfire, to be published in the U.S. next month. Though her books did not sell as well as those written by Snow, her second husband, critics praised them for satirical wit and deft malice...
...temperature, creating cracks, Frand A. Marciano, superintendent in Buildings and Grounds, says. "Some of the roofing problems are going to be cleared up this summer," with the realignment of gutters, Marciano adds; in the past, efforts at preventing leaks have been limited to caulking and the removal of heavy snow accumulation by workmen...
...despite the team's dismal Ivy League performance. Few remember the details, but a right end named Ted Kennedy (back at school after a year's banishment for some confusion over a certain Spanish exam) scored the only Harvard touchdown against yale that year, as the Bulldogs and the snow combined to defeat the Crimson, 21-7 in New Haven...
...swept away several bridges. The eruption killed 34 people, demolished 178 homes and devastated hundreds of thousands of acres, much of it rich timber land. By the time the dust cleared, 150 sq. mi. of once green countryside lay lifeless, under what looked like a heavy fall of gray snow...