Word: forecasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Space beyond the belt has unknown perils too. Bright flares breaking out of the sun occasionally fill it with X rays, ultraviolet and erratically curving streams of high-energy particles. No one knows how to forecast these tempests in space, or how to keep them from killing unshielded spacemen. If manned lunar spacecraft must be protected by heavy shielding, the rockets that launch them will have to be made bigger, and this will cause change and long delay all down the line...
DOMINICAN REGIME NEAR COLLAPSE. screamed a New York World-Telegram headline last week. "The government of President Juan Bosch," wrote Hal Hendrix, 41, the Telly's new Latin American correspondent, "may not survive the year." In less than a day, events caught up with the forecast (see THE HEMISPHERE). "How's this for bull's-eye reporting?" asked the Telly...
...palace, and his powers are largely ceremonial. The King's last personal armed force is being merged into the army. The King, whose cunning is legendary, may use his fortune, estimated at more than $100 million, to buy out his pro-Feisal kinsmen. The outlook was perhaps best forecast by an Arab journalist: "I see ahead a period of intrigue and suspicion, in which a passing word from a harem woman might take the sleep for nights from the eyes of important princes...
...Associated Press man the story, and A.P. moved it to papers and radio stations all over the state. The eyes of Oklahoma were upon the skies as the first and second days passed without any rain, just as the Weather Bureau predicted. For the third day, the Weather Bureau forecast "a chance of light afternoon and evening thunder showers, with no more than one-quarter of an inch of rain...
...sometimes tosses out clouds of deadly particles, mostly protons, that can kill in a few minutes any humans riding in thin-walled spacecraft. So among the scientists who studied the corona were members of a new, specialized profession: solar meteorology. Their job is to learn to forecast solar weather and try to pick times when astronauts can venture safely beyond the shelter of the earth's atmosphere...