Word: snowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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November 9 dawned cold, and though the rain from the day before had stopped the overcast sky seemed to predict snow and possibly something else. The something else arrived, staring the freshman, the sophomore, the junior, the senior in the face as he opened his door and picked up his usually staid, quiet-looking CRIMSON. Black headlines leaped...
Down Through Snow. The Beechcraft dipped and fell, slid heavily into a steep mountainside, shearing off the starboard engine and wing. As flames lashed at the cabin, the LeMasuriers scrambled to safety, narrowly escaped the exploding fuel tanks. Then a rainstorm squall broke and put out the fire. Although they did not know it, the LeMasuriers had crashed only a mile upslope from a sheepherder's camp on Ferris Mountain (9,500 ft.), 40 miles north of Rawlins...
...shelter rigged from signal-flare parachutes, kept their feet warm in below-freezing temperatures by tucking them into an oversized insulated ice bucket. Although Dalton had suffered a head injury in the crash, it seemed minor; they decided to strike out down the slope through the waist-deep snow. Pausing to rest on a ledge, the exhausted couple rigged a shaky windbreak and decided to stay put. There Dalton LeMasurier died of a brain hemorrhage...
Upon a Hunch. Alone against the mountain, Dorothy LeMasurier kept her wits about her. She carefully covered her husband with part of a parachute. She put a red sweater on a pole to attract search planes, went on using a salvaged bucket to melt snow (by body warmth) for drinking water. Every day she took pains to stand up and do a few exercises. Protected by several layers of clothing against the cold and sleet, she ticked off the days with lipstick on a nearby tree. But shock and exposure began to tell. After 19 days on Ferris Mountain, only...
...Snow-White. Benoit and Leroy named their new ducks "Blanche-neige" (snow-white) and touched off a France-wide sensation by telling about them. The French press has been full of praise, speculation and wonderment, not unmixed with uneasiness. Many were the suggestions for treating infant humans with human DNA. Neither of the partners has any such intention. "It is inadmissible," says Professor Benoit, "to talk about experimenting on men at this time. We are only at the very beginning." Father Leroy sounds somewhat worried, but he finds refuge in the reasoning used by the makers of the first atomic...