Word: forecasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twisty Center. The bureau will forecast flying weather up to 42,000 ft. Most of the information will come from weather balloons launched every six hours and reported to seven main stations (Suitland, Md., New York City, Miami, San Juan, P.R., San Francisco, Honolulu and Anchorage, Alaska). Electronic instruments dangling under the balloons will report temperature and humidity at the various levels. As the balloons climb through the air layers, their motion will be tracked electronically, revealing the direction and speed of the high-altitude winds. At the National Weather Analysis Center at Suitland, the data will be digested, plotted...
...best of the year. During the last ten days of November, dealers sold an average 18,400 cars a day, the fastest-selling pace of '58. This was 13.7% over the midmonth and some 57% over the first ten days. For December as a whole sales are forecast at 450,000, up from 292,000 in October and an estimated 368,000 in November...
...Crimson also has internal problems. Thirty-year veteran coach Hal Ulen has not yet recovered from a summer bursitis operation, but Coach Brooks says that according to the present forecast Ulen "is expected back sometime this season." Until then, the team will be coached by Brooks, the freshman coach and Ulen's assistant for the past 14 years...
...study, administered to graduates of classes of 1949 to 1956 by Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Tests, also revealed that senior grades in college gave the best forecast of medical school grades for public school graduates. For graduates of private secondary schools, the Medical College Admission Test provided a better prediction of medical school marks, the test shows...
...between "awe and anxiety." The vast geographical vacuum between the two countries is being competitively filled-by Khrushchev's reclamation of the Central Asian "virgin lands," and by China's intensive colonization of Sinkiang province, once a Soviet zone of influence. When Britain's Sam Watson forecast to Khrushchev that the Chinese would one day flood either north into Siberia or south into Australia, Khrushchev's reply was: "I'm all in favor of Australia...