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...reflect the radar's waves. The fierce air currents do not show up on the scope, but the presence of large masses of raindrops is a strong indication of turbulence. A plane equipped with the proper radar can steer a safe course, even at night, among a herd of thunderstorms. The Weather Bureau's radar can spot a storm as far away as 100 miles, and warn planes to steer clear...
Cops & Chaos. Scenes inside the schools were less orderly than they were outside; in some schools they looked like rehearsals for chaos. Bobby-soxers roamed from room to room, singing, cheering and shrieking. Some scrawled on blackboards: "Teacher is a scab." As soon as a harassed schoolmarm managed to herd one group of revelers into a classroom, another gang careened into the corridor. Policemen tried to talk the pupils into going home, but the kids were having too much fun in school...
...would be more rational and less instinctive, less subject to sexual and parental emotion, to rage on the one hand and to so-called herd instincts on the other. His motivation would depend far more than ours on education. . . . He would be of high general intelligence by our standards, and most individuals would have some special aptitude developed to the degree which we call genius...
...Herman herd" came to a stop just one year after it won the 1945 band-of-the-year poll by the jazz magazine Metronome. Last week Metronome counted up its 1946 votes and awarded its prize to a band still new to the big time: Stan Kenton's. He finished far ahead of Duke Ellington...
...before it. When they came to fences they turned, followed the wire. But some time during the second night, when the snow was belly deep on the flats and higher than a rider's head in the drifts, they stopped. When the storm ceased and the cold intensified, herd after herd stood wearily with their breaths steaming, waiting patiently for death...