Word: weather
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wearing it. Furthermore, the boy seems to have an excellent chance of remaining in the no-income bracket, his only known assets being far-out light verse, arty photography, folk singing and whacking together his own furniture. Though Fonda's mind and face boggle in a perfect weather map of cloudy consternation, he makes a liberal-minded effort to adjust to all this. His period of adjustment conies to a desperate halt when he learns that the son-in-law intends to deliver the forthcoming baby himself in a self-carpentered obstetrical room...
...surging crowds, kept under all but constant surveillance by television cameras, Paul appeared no less the spiritual monarch but more the appealing human being. Like other men, a Pope can suffer from the cold-a fact made clear when Paul alter a momentary breath of the 44° weather that greeted him in New York abruptly switched from his open-top Lincoln to an enclosed limousine for the ceremonial motorcade through the city Popes, too, can tire: unerringly, cameras zoomed in to catch the lines of fatigue that etched his lean, ascetic face. And no more for the Pope than...
...curbstones. In some places the cheering onlookers were packed five and ten deep along the streets, and Fifth Avenue was a solid sea of faces. But embarrassingly long stretches of the papal route were almost bereft of welcomers, as millions of other New Yorkers apparently used the cool October weather as an excuse to obey police suggestions that they stay home and watch it all on television...
They flee across the 90-mile Straits of Florida in any kind of weather, in anything that floats-from stolen fishing boats to rafts made of inner tubes and scrap lumber, running the treacherous gauntlet of Castro patrol boats and helicopters. In the past four years, 8,300 have made the perilous journey by water. A British freighter captain who puts into Havana estimates that for every refugee who evades Castro's patrols, three die. He calls the 40-mile stretch extending from the northern coast "Machine Gun Alley," and says: "Time and again, we come across small boats...
...something happened on the way to Phase 3. The skies indeed opened up - and rained napalm, machine-gun bullets and Bull-Pup missiles from U.S. fighter-bombers, which by last week were flying over 400 lethal sorties a day. No weather could hide the Viet Cong from the radar eyes of the Guam-based B-52s and their pulverizing 750-and 1,000-lb. bombs. And by the tens of thousands each week, U.S. fighting men swarmed into Viet Nam (total at the end of last week: 128,000), first to relieve the pressure on Vietnamese troops, then...