Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist Viet Cong. It read: "A 250,000-man French expeditionary corps came this way and was destroyed. Don't let it happen to you." They didn't. Though wave upon wave of U.S. fighter-bombers swept in before the attack with bombs and rockets, the weather turned bad for air support when the assault actually began. By midday, the attack force had reached the Viet Cong's main line of resistance-a low mudbank at the far side of open paddyfields affording a clear field of fire to the enemy...
...cars can survive a route that meanders all the way from mushy beaches to 12,000-ft.-high hairpins, from riverbeds to swamps. The surface is often black-cotton soil that turns to treacle at the first trace of rain. A worse, all-weather hazard comes in the form of mud or rock walls dumped across roads by enterprising tribesmen, who live all year on the fees they earn for removing them. "In Kenya," says one old African hand, "Harambee is a national motto. It means 'Let's all push together.' The trouble is that half...
Nevertheless, the soggy weather wasn't new to the Crimson. In Philadelphia on Friday it was raining softly but steadily as Harvard beat Columbia 5-2 and lost to Pennsylvania 7-0 in a three-team match...
...Harvard five-some, according to Mercer, were bothered more by the weather yesterday than Tufts, B.C., or third place Northeastern. In this same tournament played against the same opponents on the same Weston course last fall, Harvard won easily as Campen and first man Brian McGuinn tied for tournament honors with low scores...
...those who like to read the People Items, the 'Poon writes: "Banners waving, confetti streaming, cannons booming, and thousands of broadly smiling Washingtonians on official holiday (their second in as many weeks) crowding the elm-lined length of Pennsylvania Avenue in the abnormal (for Washington) 60 degree weather, the stately pearl gray Lincoln Continental limousine, dappled sunlight glinting from its vinyl roof, preceded by a 50-girl corps of the fairest drum-majorettes in a city renowned for them (having produced eight national winners since 1955), sandwiched between sixteen marching bands (especially flown in for the occasion from Bancouver) playing...