Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francisco's weather was clear and sunny Sunday, but a water-saturated out-field at Candlestick Park forced the third consecutive postponement of the sixth game of the 1962 World Series. The Giants' groundskeeper is certain that the field will be ready for a game today...
Just one little demurrer. TIME credited the builders, architects, designers, planners for this unprecedented achievement. Only one group went unmentioned, the men who built these edifices-the bricklayers, ironworkers, plumbers, electricians, carpenters, painters, operating engineers, lathers, in short, the building tradesmen, those who brave freezing weather, driving rains, torrid sunshine and who sometimes gamble-and lose-life and limb to erect these grandiose edifices...
...city of New York has its share of great museums, but there is one rich area of art that none of them give adequate houseroom to. This is American folk art-the vast treasury of weather vanes and limners' portraits, of whittled toys and cigar-store Indians that were also objects of genuine beauty. To those with affection for the field, this shortcoming has been especially galling, for there was a time when the city had two of the best collections in the country. Unhappily for New Yorkers, the pioneering collection of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller ended up in Williamsburg...
...docks at the M.I.T. sailing pavilion went under water during Cambridge's worst rainstorm in seven years. Ten dinghies flipped over as the wind whipped up monstrous waves on the Charles. But despite the foul weather, an outstanding Crimson sailing team swept over seven other Ivy League crews to win the first Ivy League Dinghy Championship...
...Weather Bureau issued flood warnings for the Charles River yesterday afternoon, but indicates that there is now no danger in the Basin. However, the upper river is expected to crest at four feet today and over six feet on Thursday, flooding lowlands and cellars in the Dedham and Dover vicinity...