61.   Just before noon, spelling bee participants were a rare sight at the downtown hotel as crews readied a subterranean ballroom for the contest.

62.   Much of the countryside is blanketed in snow, a rare sight in this typically soggy but temperate land.

63.   Rafter provided a rare sight on Center Court, an all-out attacking player.

64.   Reporters and a few law students fascinated by the rare sight of a constitution in the making waited in hallways for word of progress.

65.   Sailors on U.S. ships that routinely stopped to refuel at Aden rarely went ashore, so Americans in uniform had been a rare sight.

66.   So reserve soldiers with long hair cascading out from under their army hats are not a rare sight.

67.   The demonstration was an extremely rare sight in Cuba, where until recently the faithful have had to endure restrictions on their religious expression.

68.   The drachma has been a rare sight in shops for weeks.

69.   The rare sight of a young humpback whale frolicking in the sea off southern Greece has experts scrambling to document the visit of the wayward wanderer.

70.   The talk offered a now rare sight of the fallen leader.