Word: snowing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Soft music wafted from loudspeakers, through streets gaily arched in colored lights, over children tumbling in the snow, across the city preparing to holiday. On the Eve of Christmas, Brussels looked serene and secure, but, like the rest of the world, Brussels felt the underlying fear and tension. Inside the rococo Hotel Metropole, in an atmosphere of crisis, the Foreign Ministers and military chiefs of the twelve Atlantic pact nations met this week to set up the long-delayed military force for defense against Communism...
...thousand Chinese dead lay in the snow next day. In spite of incessant air strafing, and a rain of shells from U.S. artillery and from cruisers and destroyers offshore, the enemy maintained his pressure. As U.N. troops were evacuated, the perimeter shrank. Star shells and flares illuminated the scene at night-which was the U.S. way of countering the enemy's preference for night fighting...
...concrete warehouses at the dockside had somehow escaped major damage, but most of the rest of the port facilities were in complete ruin-huge gas storage tanks crumpled up like discarded beer cans, power plants stripped of their heavy, concrete walls, their generators rusting slowly away beneath alternate snow and freezing rain. Here & there stood long lines of brand-new, Japanese-made freight cars, their gleaming white sides neatly marked with the insignia of the U.S. Army's Transportation Corps. An officer stared blackly out over the rubble, waved at the freight cars, tanks and stacks of other heavy...
Into one hour last week, CBS tried to pack all the news of the previous seven days. Listeners to Hear It Now (Fri. 9 p.m.) heard "drama for the ear" that originated in the trampled snow of North Korea, the drapery-hung walls of Lake Success and on the quarter-deck of the battleship Missouri...
Christmas skiing in New England is strictly a gamble with the weather man. If snow doesn't come to New England during the next two weeks the best bet appears to be Canada's Laurentians, north of Montreal. There is already a cover of about 14 to 18 inches on both Mont Tremblant and St. Donat and the lifts have been running for several weeks...