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...June 11 sober seniors will convene behind Sever to attend Class Day Exercises. Why everybody continues to use the word Exercises is hard to say. Nothing much happens, except everybody gets bored and starts twitching about, hoping a thunderstorm will break and end the ceremonies early...
Like a receding thunderstorm, the echoes of the Zhukov affair grew fainter and fainter. No one seemed to be in any hurry to find a job for Russia's greatest living soldier, and by week's end Pravda was devoting only half a page to denunciations of the marshal's sins. Four and a half years after Stalin's death, Nikita Khrushchev stood alone and unchallenged...
...Harlem tenement, learned the fundamentals of the game playing with crude wooden paddles on the pavements of New York. In 1950, when she was invited to play in the U.S. nationals at Forest Hills, she was leading Former Champion Louise Brough in the second round when a thunderstorm washed out the match. Next day Althea collapsed before seasoned Tennist Brough. From that match until last week, no one really knew if Althea had the drive to match her physical talents; since becoming a name player in 1950, she had won more than a dozen tournaments, but only one major...
Kansas City's twister, like all tornadoes, kicked out of a vicious thunderstorm. The U.S. Weather Bureau's radar showed it by early evening as the hooked tail on an egg-shaped thunderstorm blob moving northeastward across Kansas one day last week. At 6:30 p.m., as the Missouri city was settling down to supper, a storm-warning volunteer near Williamsburg, Kans., 70 miles southwest of the city, backstopped the radar. In the storm's ugly grey clouds, he telephoned, was a groping funnel. Ten minutes later, urged on by bulletins from three television and seven radio...
Less than an hour after the start, a thunderstorm roiled the lake. Booming along at ten knots, the yawl Querida, out of Grosse Pointe, caught a lightning bolt on her masthead. The charge knocked out the radio and most of the electrical system, swirled the compass haywire. Worst of all, it fused together a generous supply of beer cans cooling in the bilge, and for hours afterward, the bilge pump produced beer on tap. The unnerved crew grabbed for the cans that survived, and broke open the emergency supply of hard stuff. "By the time we got to Mackinac." said...