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...trickiest jobs in meteorology is predicting the path of a hurricane. As hurricanes drift northward, they become entangled in the "planetary wind," the broad, strong current of air that whistles around the earth in north temperate latitudes at heights between 10,000 and 40,000 ft. The planetary wind's general flow is toward the east, so when it captures a hurricane off the U.S. east coast, it generally pushes the spinner out over the Atlantic. But, as many a meteorologist has discovered to his grief, the wind is not constant in direction; it whips from side to side...
...great debates nor marked by sharp party cleavage. But the Administration took Congress seriously, and Congress took itself seriously. It worked haltingly and messily-but very hard. When the session ended, it became plain that Eisenhower and his congressional leaders between them had halted and perhaps reversed the drift toward welfare-statism...
...over the tawny fields of Burgundy. In the rear cockpit, a Russian parachutist carefully checked his equipment. When he spotted a white chalk cross on the ground below, he stepped off into space. For 20 seconds he fell free. Then his nylon chute blossomed overhead and he began to drift downwind, past his target. Tugging skillfully at his suspension lines, he spilled air from his chute and slipped back toward the cross. He touched down only four yards short of the mark...
...should stand, and are failing to build our strength while we still may have the time to build it ... God has given us the opportunity to defend [our] way of life through adequate military strength. The sooner we attain that strength, the sooner we can halt the present drift towards a helplessness which can only result in the loss of the free world...
Diplomatic Front. Arbenz' ouster complicated diplomatic efforts to deal with the civil war and-more widely-with Guatemala's drift toward becoming a Russian satellite in the U.S.'s backyard...