Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a certain amount of sentiment for getting out of Viet Nam at once and at all costs. The leading congressional spokesmen for this view had been Senators Wayne Morse of Oregon and Ernest Gruening of Alaska until they were suddenly and surprisingly joined two weeks ago by Georgia's Richard Russell, a heretofore generally fervent supporter of a strong U.S. position in the world and a close friend of President Johnson's. South Dakota's George McGovern recently added his voice. "We are on a dead-end street," he said, "and ours is a bankrupt...
...Francisco airport was busily recording weather data from ships and planes out in the Pacific. And as the hieroglyphics of his profession spread across his maps, he recognized signs of trouble. The Pacific High, a mass of high-pressure air that normally occupies most of the area between Alaska and Hawaii, shielding California in winter from rain-bearing oceanic winds, was breaking in two before his eyes. Half of it had moved southward to the latitude of Mexico while the other half had shifted north ward to the Gulf of Alaska. Through the low-pressure gap that resulted, a stream...
After ten days, the Pacific High pulled itself together again. The normal pattern of northwest winter weather brought cold air from Alaska. Snowfall put ski resorts back in business again. The steep rivers stopped foaming, and river towns began cleaning up the debris left by floods. Then, early last week, the sheltering Pacific High broke in two once more, and another wind from Hawaii headed for California. Another warning went out, and inhabitants of flood-damaged towns headed for the hills...
...trouble. Some of them blamed the jet stream, the belt of high-altitude wind that blows around the planet in mid-latitudes. It has been unusually swift this winter, reaching speeds of 150 m.p.h., and has crossed the U.S. in an unusual pattern, curving down from western Alaska to Southern California and then slanting up to Chicago. It may have had some influence on low-altitude weather, but experts do not agree. One group blames the West Coast's time of weather trouble on a great patch of unusually warm surface water far out in the Pacific, which...