Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What was startling, in view of his stridently racist campaign, was the subdued, even soporific tone of the new Governor's inaugural address in Atlanta. Speaking to a crowd of several hundred-including a little old lady in red tennis shoes-gathered in 32° weather, Maddox, 51, pointedly avoided any hint of bigotry. Promising to follow the progressive policies of outgoing Governor Carl Sanders, he declared: "There is no necessity for any conflict to arise between federal-state authority. We should-and we can-solve any disagreements under the framework of the Constitution, respecting the authority...
Fully 200,000 skilled managers and technicians have fled the country; hundreds more are in jail for political crimes. Wheat, usually harvested Dakota-style with giant combines, will henceforth be grown on uneconomical 40-acre plots by government decree. Not even the weather has cooperated with the Baath: 1966 brought a crop failure that severely cut wheat and cotton production and drained Damascus of precious foreign exchange. Western banks have almost unanimously refused to lend further money. To try to recoup some cash, Jadid recently cut the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline through Syria and attempted to blackmail...
Casebeer, is in and around Harvard Square every afternoon excepting Sundays--and makes from $50 to $75 a week, depending mainly on the weather. He estimated a sale of about 200 pretzels on weekdays, running up to 400 on Saturdays...
...When the weather cleared in the Red River delta to the north, seven flights of American fighter-bombers hammered the Ha Gia fuel dump 14 miles outside of Hanoi and only three miles from Phuc Yen, North Viet Nam's largest airbase. It was the fourth raid on Ha Gia in two months and served notice on Hanoi that the U.S. would continue blasting strategic targets near the capital, despite the recent international uproar (TIME, Dec. 23) triggered by North Viet Nam's discredited charges that the U.S. was bombing residential areas inside Hanoi itself...
Pettifogging is countered by perjury. In return for the attorney-generalship of Wales, a fair-weather friend (John Hurt) trumps up evidence that More is a traitor. "Why, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world," the doomed man murmurs with incredulous irony. "But for Wales...