Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midweek, White House aides watching Capitol Hill saw storm signals, reported growing evidence that the President's legislative program might be in for heavy weather with the 87th Congress. President Kennedy decided to cut short his Florida stay and fly back to the capital for a series of conferences with key Congressmen. Chief among those the President wanted to see was Arkansas' Representative Wilbur Mills, whose Ways & Means Committee must pass on several of Kennedy's prime proposals (see following story). Then, at week's end, Kennedy flew to Columbus for a $100-a-plate Democratic...
...peace treaty between Russia and East Germany; Khrushchev quietly dropped that deadline weeks ago, in his New Year's message did not even mention it. While West Germany continued to enjoy its brightly lit prosperity, the eastern half of the divided country was in gloomy want. As the weather turned colder, there were official warnings against the use of electric heaters because of East Germany's power shortage. Shops were short of shoes. Butter, milk and meat were hard to find in many cities. The papers kept reporting arrests of "economic criminals"; one 69-year-old woman...
...Harvard-Cornell hockey game scheduled for last Saturday night has been postponed until tomorrow night at Watson Rink at 8 p.m. The visiting team was unable to fly from Ithaca, N.Y., Saturday becouse of poor weather conditions...
...reading period, the weather is foul and the trip into Boston and back will use up another half-hour of your time, but don't let all this bother you. Rationalize it away, put on your galoshes and go to the Telepix to see the best double bill of the season...
...first results were all too military, but the mind soon came to outrank the manual of arms. Though all Culver boys above eighth grade are enrolled in R.O.T.C., drill is confined to Saturday mornings in warm weather. Hazing is nonexistent; newcomers are plebes for only one term, are obliged only to call old students "Mr." More important are Culver's stiff entrance exams (average cadet IQ: 120) and drill in such matters as college algebra, Latin and Russian. Often recruited from Culver's resoundingly successful summer camp, the boys seem to thrive on the school's theory...