Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...despite their plans for Venezuela's political future, the three leaders were in no hurry to dash home to put them into effect all at once. Instead, Betancourt and Caldera waited patiently while Villalba went ahead to test the ice...
George Docking, the genial, 53-year-old governor of Kansas, and his wife Virginia had just finished a rousing round of duplicate bridge and a lively tournament post-mortem of the play over coffee and ice cream in the Hotel Kansan snackshop, the Purple Cow. It was past midnight in Topeka as Democrat Docking paid the bill, escorted Virginia to his state-owned Cadillac outside, helped her into the car, slid into the driver's seat and purred off into the night...
Scotsman Ronald MacLennan and his wife Margaret, a professional ice skater, separated in 1954. Margaret crossed the Atlantic to live in Brooklyn, where, more than a year later, she gave birth to a daughter. In Scotland, Ronald brought suit for divorce, charging that she must have committed adultery. Margaret's reply: the baby was the result of artificial insemination. Her husband answered that, even if this were true, he had never agreed to her adopting such a course...
...Weathermen are getting the first really worldwide picture of the atmosphere's circulation. U.S. Weather Bureau scientists drifting on the Arctic ice keep track of winds and pressure changes that will affect the weather of Keokuk and Odessa. Their colleagues at the South Pole do the same for the Antarctic. Already their reports have improved weather forecasting for the Southern Hemisphere...
...planet is still in the grip of an Ice Age, with icecaps at both polar regions, and the IGY wants to know whether it is coming or going. In Greenland, scientists have bored 1,438 ft. into the ice. In Antarctica they are doing the same, and measuring the great icecap by seismic waves. Other scientists are observing the advance or retreat of smaller glaciers in Temperate Zone mountains. Their reports may tell what changes of climate lie in the earth's future...