Word: weather
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Weather. Much of it has ranged from bad to impossible. Denver's Stapleton airport was closed intermittently for days because of thunderstorms. The Northern states have been besieged by a succession of lightning-filled fronts, which have delayed flights for hours...
...refuses to use either Hollywood lingo or the latest L.A. hip-speak, Beatty likes to take long pauses in the middle of sentences to make sure that he doesn't say more than he intends. In action, he is fast and effective. Lillian Hellman describes Beatty as a "foul-weather friend," the first person to call in a crisis. Says Mike Nichols: "He can make 65 calls in three hours and plan anything." Beatty is also a health-food enthusiast and, as Nichols notes, "a postgraduate hypochondriac." He tells of the time that Beatty crossed wires making a call...
...American state and the Chinese revolution, unannounced. Because it was a dull afternoon, John Paton Davies, the State Department's political adviser to Stilwell, Colonel David Barrett, chief of U.S. military observers in Yenan, and I had gone to the airstrip to see one of our rare weather-service planes arrive. But there was a second plane, and out of it descended a six-foot-three-inch character in American uniform and overcoat, the pants pressed knife-sharp, a silver-haired, bushy-mustached major general, whose chest was covered with ribbons from shoulder to rib cage. It was Hurley...
Free tours of the campus are available throughout the summer at the Holyoke Information Center. They leave Monday through Saturday at 10 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 2 p.m., and 3:15 p.m., and Sunday at 1:30 p.m. and 3:15 p.m., weather permitting. For more information, call...
Free tours of the campus are available throughout the summer at the Holyoke Information Center. They leave Monday through Saturday at 10 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 2 p.m., and 3:15 p.m., and Sunday at 1:30 p.m. and 3:15 p.m., weather permitting. For more information, call...