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Pacific Wave. Hurricane Carol, which smashed, tangled and flooded New England last week, started her career as a run-of-the-mill hurricane, perhaps a little lazier than most. On Monday morning, she was dawdling along off South Carolina, watched by airplanes and Weather Bureau radar and spinning northward at only four miles per hour. By Monday afternoon, Carol was captured by the planetary wind. It picked up her whirling mass and carried it north northeastward at 18 to 20 m.p.h. The weathermen, studying their charts, expected her to veer more sharply to the east and pass harmlessly east...
Then came the meteorological kink that turned humdrum Carol into a raging hazard by leading her toward shore. It was a deep wave in the planetary wind, part of a disturbance that had been detected while still over the Pacific more than a week before. By 3 a.m. Tuesday morning, the wind was headed toward the north, carrying Carol at 35 to 40 m.p.h. toward Long Island. Warnings went out at once, but most people along the endangered coast had gone to bed unworried, confident that Carol would pass them by. Instead, she churned destructively across southeastern New England, destroying...
High Water. As hurricanes go, Carol was not unusually violent. Much of her damage, aside from the steeple, toppled trees and tangled wires, was caused by storm tides. A hurricane has several devices for raising the water level. In the "eye of the storm," the center of the spinning doughnut, barometric pressure is abnormally low. So the sea is sucked upward, sometimes as much as four feet. In Carol's case this effect was minor. The pressure in her center probably did not fall below 28.4 inches (of mercury) and so could not have lifted the sea level much...
...meeting with Sinclair Lewis in London in 1922, Biographer Charles Breasted, writing in the Saturday Review, recalled asking the late author whether Main Street, the literary rage of that day, was autobiographical. Lewis'candid admission: it was. Breasted wanted to know whether the novel's heroine, Carol Kennicott, was a self-portrait. Startled at one of the few correct guesses about Carol's identity, Lewis replied with what could well have served as his own gloomy epitaph: "Yes, Carol...
Married. Martine Carol, 29, whose bosomy pictures have made her the hottest film property in France (Caroline Chérie); and Christian-Jaque (real name: Christian Maudet), 41, her director; both for the second time; in Grasse, France...