Word: weather
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moratorium Day began with candle-lit vigils Tuesday night and meetings in several colleges, some of them in freezing weather. In Albany, New York, a group of students spent the night huddled around fires in blankets and sleeping bags while temperatures hovered in the low 30's. In Fort Lauderdale, Florida, about 100 students, many in bathing suits, attended a dawn rally...
...their baby carriages to guard against theft. Construction has slowed so drastically that of 6,000 new apartments planned for this year, fewer than 100 have been completed. Because of a lack of coal, the government has reduced supplies available to schools and homes-a harsh step as cold weather approaches-and has cut electricity to "nonvital" industries...
...Weather Fair and Balmypolice line, fighting with police, and surged east on Division St. to Astor. Smaller bands of demonstrators ran down other streets...
...black schoolgirl in Philip Evergood's painting There'll Be a Change in the Weather stands as straight as Caspar the King. She is wearing sneakers just like the other kids, so white, and a pretty school frock. But she is mocked. The children who should be her friends stick out their tongues. The beauty of the painting hurts. One al most expects the mothering earth to open and receive the girl, to save her from the hell of that schoolyard...
Although Saturday's weather may have been perfect for the football game in Soldiers' Stadium. The extremely light winds hampered racing conditions. Competition in each division was held to three heats because of the variable winds...