Word: misting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cars slammed into a tank car parked on a siding, rupturing it and allowing its cargo of anhydrous ammonia fertilizer to escape. Within minutes, a deadly, all-enveloping mist hovered over the vicinity. Sleeping in their house near the tracks, Ron Hatchett, 21, and his small daughter died almost instantly. So did an elderly couple living nearby and another man a few houses away. Besides the five in Crete, the accident killed three men riding the rails and hospitalized 18 other people with ammonia inhalation and burns...
...winter night, the neon signs of Crouch Temple glow with a lonely halo in the Los Angeles mist. Central Avenue, not far from the scene of the 1965 Watts riots, is quiet. But inside the temple, a converted theater, the night is alive. Some 2,000 people-black, white and brown-are turned toward the stage, crying "Hallelujah" and "God be praised!" For more than an hour the tension has been building up. Testimonies, gospel songs, pledges, blessings, and more songs-a writhing, Presleyan, shirt-open gospel rock driven home by an organ, drums and piano combo. Women are swaying...
...recent tests of their theory, the Air Force scientists chose Smith Moun tain Airport, near Roanoke, Va., which is often socked in by moist, low-lying mist. The Air Force made available twin-turbine CH-3E helicopters for use as air-mixing devices...
...routine developed during three foggy weeks of tests, a helicopter was flown to an altitude of 500 ft. above the mist, where it hovered until the turbulence of its downdraft traced a cir cular outline about 5,000 ft. in diameter on the upper layer of fog. The chopper then descended to 100 ft. above the fog and, at a speed of 30 m.p.h., began to fly in a gradually enlarging spiral pattern until it reached the edge of the circular outline. Within a minute, the fog began to fade away at the center of the circle. Ten minutes later...
...setting is a film in itself. Shot in grainy-greenish color, to a soundtrack of dirgeful medieval music, the Icelandic countryside (sheets of solid lava, mist rising from craggy fields) seems like another planet. Maybe it is--but then the whole picture harks back to an idea of man light-years away from...