Word: weather
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chicagoans knew that the balmy 65° weather could hardly last-it was, after all, the warmest Jan. 24 on record- but they little dreamed how startling the change would be. Within two days, the temperature plummeted to the 20s, snow came cascading down, and icy winds gusted through the streets. Though no stranger to wintry storms, Chicago found itself in the brief space of 24 hours paralyzed by the worst blizzard in its history-a raging storm that tore through large sections of the Midwest and caused at least 75 deaths...
There was at least one eerily unseasonable spectacle: On Chicago's Roosevelt Road, the scene of three nights of hot-weather rioting last July, Negro hoodlums methodically pillaged stores and trucks, and looting by whites and Negroes alike was common in other parts of the city as well. More than 100 persons were arrested. At one point, police caught ransackers breaking into a Roosevelt Road shoe store. In the exchange of gunfire that resulted, a ten-year-old Negro girl was killed...
...insights is, I think, very worthwhile. A seminarian friend of mine put it in a nutshell: "We are not in the real 'light of Vatican II' as yet; we are only at the dawn of a stormy day. But we have the opportunity to determine the weather. We can't go south for the winter; we have to stay and bring about the spring...
Illusion of Spontaneity. For a man who is supposed to adore the late President, Manchester did not hesitate to portray him in his last hours as harassed and irascible. J.F.K. is described as chewing out Brigadier General Godfrey McHugh for wrongly forecasting cool weather in Texas. He orders Jackie to wear "simple" clothes to "show these Texans [original version: "those rich Texas broads"] what good taste really is." While making a speech in Houston, Kennedy's hands shook so violently that they seemed palsied. "To his audiences," writes Manchester, "his easy air seemed unstudied. The illusion of spontaneity...
...high time that somebody spot ted the tiger in the Ivy. Two weeks ago, Princeton's Tigers pulled off the coup of the season against previously undefeated, No. 3-ranked North Carolina. Bad weather forced cancellation of their flight south; so the Tigers rode a railroad coach for 101½ hours, arrived in Chapel Hill at 7:30 a.m. on the day of the game. They sank 65.5% of their shots to win 91-81. Coupled with last week's victory over Harvard, that was enough to earn Princeton No. 7 position in the Associated Press rankings...