Word: snowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steady snow was falling on Lake Huron as the 603-ft. freighter Daniel J. Morrell steamed toward Taconite, Minn., for a load of iron ore, but the night was otherwise tranquil. Watchman Dennis Hale, 26, ended his tour of duty, had a snack in the galley and headed for his bunk. Six hours later, he was awakened by "two loud thumps," followed by the insistent clang of the emergency bell. Clad only in underwear and peacoat (he couldn't find his trousers), Hale sped topside-and gasped at what he saw. Lashed by a sudden, severe Great Lakes storm...
CHINA by Emit Schulthess. 248 pages. Viking. $25. This opulent book of 165 splendid photographs, taken by Swiss-born Photojournalist Schulthess and supplemented by even-handed essays from Author Edgar Snow, German Journalist Harry Hamm and Professor Emil Egli, is about as close as most Americans will get to China this year. The photos, like China itself, seem timeless: men and women straining to haul boats upriver against a driving current, bent-backed peasants at labor in the fields, students planting trees, Mongolian horsemen racing across the steppe. And everywhere, plump wide-eyed children...
...dress got tangled in the sequins belonging to Marie Edith Legendre, the French consul general's wife. "I took a small loss at my hem," says Susan, "because I thought her whole dress might unravel." More serious still, there are signs that all the glitter is leading to snow blindness. Snaps the Boston Globe's Marjorie Sherman: "Frankly, I don't think I'm going to put any glitter on my Christmas tree, I'm so sick of it. It's everywhere. In everything. On their shoes. On their eyelids...
...fearsome winds can also have beneficial results. In Canada, chinooks sometimes produce refreshing, springlike thaws in the midst of long, sub-zero winters. They often melt enough snow to allow deer and cattle to forage for food on the uncovered ground. In Los Angeles last week, as the smog was temporarily displaced by dry, clear air, residents out for an evening walk could look up to see an unfamiliar and refreshing sight: the stars...
...women make the most careful watchers. They know that the locust will be the last to lose its leaves, that its red will last nearly to Christmas. The women will not see the tree stripped, nor will they see the children who sled down the steps when snow fills some of the spaces; but the library caretakers and guards will take note and tell the women in the spring. All this pleases them. They are saddened only when the rain drives them from the steps or tourists pushing baby carriages ask that they move so this or that view will...