Word: haile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Athens last week, the young King of Greece was regaling his friends with his version of an encounter at sea. It seems the sky was clear and the wind low enough so that the officer on the deck of the U.S. carrier Saratoga was able to hail the youthful skipper of the sloop Proteus without a megaphone...
...above the earth, the Weatherman in the Sky begins a routine scan of the earth's surface. Beyond the green necklace of the Antilles, Hurricane Clytemnestra begins to collapse, shredded by a continuous aerial barrage of silver-iodide seeds from U.S. planes. The weatherman flashes Moscow that intense hail is due to fall on Irkutsk by early afternoon, and the Russians quickly send up rockets laden with chemicals, melting the hail before it lifts the wheat fields. As for more mundane matters, vacationers on Cape Cod will have a clammy morning-but only until...
...boldest single weather-control project, Project Stormfury, the Navy is now trying to prove that hurricanes can be steered or wiped out by seeding their centers with silver-iodide crystals. Russian antiaircraft cannons regularly bark over the mountains of Georgia and the hail-blasted steppes of Siberia, pumping tons of silver iodide into the sky at intervals of ten to 15 minutes until storms subside. In France, Meteorologist Henri Dessens has created le Météotron, a superstove that covers 3,200 square meters and has 100 burners that can generate 700,000 kilowatts of power to send...
...Route 91 bypass and either Exit 53 from the Merritt Parkway or Exit 32 from the Connecticut Turnpike. Performances tend to begin promptly at the designated hour. There are free outdoor facilities for picnickers.) final scene, when Falstaff appears with a saffron cloth tied on his stick to hail and cheer the prince-becomeking, only to be banished in return by the just-crowned Henry V, Kilty's facial expression and slow lowering of the stick and hands are deeply touching...
Died. Calvin P. Titus, 86, Congressional Medal of Honor winner during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion in China who, as an infantry bugler, scaled the 30-ft. Peking wall in a hail of bullets to lead his pinned-down regiment to the rescue of U.S. and European citizens; after a stroke; in San Fernando, Calif...