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...world, Lowell found no balm in his religion, and he renounced Catholicism. Nor was marriage a solace; it was another theater for his inner dissension. He and his wife wrote in separate rooms of a big old farmhouse. Years later, he remembered: How quivering and fierce we were. There snowbound together/ Simmering like wasps/ In our tent of books!/ Poor ghost, old love, speak/ With your old voice/ Of flaming insight/ That kept us awake all night. In one bed and apart . . . They were divorced...
...hotels. On the Calumet Expressway, 1,000 stranded motorists joined hands so that they would not get lost, snaked their way to nearby homes. A 50-year-old woman suffered a fatal heart attack on a stalled bus at 5 a.m. Friday. Not until six hours later could snowbound police remove her body...
Congressman from Arizona, were snowbound in Washington; but those who made it included their uncle Jesse, an Arizona Supreme Court justice, plus eight Udall lawyers, five judges, two law students, seven doctors, two medical students, four mayors or former mayors, and one city manager...
...inclination from the equator. Unlike the 65° slant invariably followed in cosmonaut flights, Cosmos 110 had a 51.9° inclination that did not take it nearly so far north and south. This might have been an attempt to avoid the hazards of an emergency landing in remote snowbound areas. The 51° angle, however, was also close to the angle that Russian moon shots have followed while in earth orbit, lending weight to the premise that Veterok and Ugolyok may be the immediate predecessors of the moon dogs the Russians have said they intend to send into lunar orbit...
Snowed In & Snowed Out. It was not snowing in Viet Nam, so the State Department dispatched a four-wheel-drive Jeep to bring Dean Rusk in from his snowbound home in Maryland for the Sunday conferences that followed the U.S. decision to end the bombing pause. The Pentagon rolled out four-ton trucks for its top officials. One lower-grade officer had to stay on duty in the command center for 42 hours because his relief could not make his way in. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, after flying in from Minneapolis, found the 25-mile highway from outlying Dulles Airport...