Word: overcasts
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Dawn broke overcast and muggy over Nashville (pop. 187,000), the graceful and leisurely capital of the state of Tennessee. It was back-to-school week, and for the first time in the city's history Negro children would go to school with white children. The way had been prepared carefully; the integration would be selective and limited. Only twelve carefully chosen little Negro children, first-graders all, would go to five schools that were previously all white. But the air was charged with tension. "We are in the backwash of a thing that's going...
...TIME'S cover story. May I suggest that he cut out and frame the picture of himself greeting a little child. Let us hope he will look at this picture daily and see in it what Americans would gladly see if we could divorce it from the overcast of contemporary historical shadows...
November 9 dawned cold, and though the rain from the day before had stopped the overcast sky seemed to predict snow and possibly something else. The something else arrived, staring the freshman, the sophomore, the junior, the senior in the face as he opened his door and picked up his usually staid, quiet-looking CRIMSON. Black headlines leaped...
...President of the U.S. stepped from the Columbine III into the overcast Georgia day at Augusta's Bush Field. A middle-aged housewife in a print dress nudged her companion. "My, he looks wonderful," she smiled, "but I sure do wish he'd cut that budget." The other lady, wearing a sweater and skirt despite the warmth of the day, nodded in agreement...
...gave Mills some $144,000 to spend in Paris, and he rewarded the network with a sound argument for color TV. Unfortunately, for more than 99% of those who saw it, the argument was invisible, and many of Paris' sunlit moments were overcast on black and white TV. Still the result was pleasant enough-and the reaction encouraging enough-to incite Mills to plan a lot more traveloguing. On his agenda: Anna Magnani's Rome, Laurence Olivier's London, perhaps even Marlon (Teahouse of the August Moon) Brando's Tokyo...