Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last ten years, Astronomer Tsuneo Saeki of the Osaka observatory (90 miles from Hiroshima) has been keeping an eye on Mars. About 4 a.m. on Jan. 16, he saw a great grey cloud on the face of the red planet. It rose some 60 miles into the air, he estimated, and covered a roughly circular area about 900 miles in diameter. He watched it tensely for 30 minutes; then clouds in the earth's atmosphere cut off the view. When the weather finally cleared, the clouded side of Mars had turned away...
Saeki reported his observation to top astronomers in Tokyo, who hold him in high regard. It was no ordinary Martian cloud, he said, but must be the product of a "terrific explosion." He added that he was not certain that the explosion could be of volcanic origin...
...educator (founder of The MacJannet American School at St. Cloud, France) reported: "Our school was at the crossroads of the world and a number of our students [who studied TIME] in those early days have since appeared in headlines in TIME. The Duke of Edinburgh, as the little exiled Prince Philip of Greece, Princess Anne de Bourbon (she was more of a tomboy than a student), John Eisenhower...
Just before the test, somebody warned a Trib man not to stand too close to the window ; it might shatter under the mighty blast. Precisely at noon, a Tower official pulled the lanyard. The whistle momentarily disappeared in a cloud of steam, which coursed upward for five stories. But the sound that came forth was a musical, calliope-like peep, barely audible amid the winds swirling around the Tower. Down on the streets, hardly a Chicagoan turned his head. Reported the undaunted Tribune next day : "A thunderous bellow was emitted from [the whistle's] metal throat...
Visually, it was all worthwhile. Beautifully photographed in black & white, the film is encrusted with atmosphere: tapestried, frescoed splendor of vaulted palaces and chapels, lush, brocaded period costumes, sweating dungeons and stately formal gardens, misty canals, soaring mountain fortresses and the cloud-hung, peak-strewn landscapes of central Italy...