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...electrical plant in Staffordshire, two impulsive canteen waitresses pinned the visiting Russian and planted moist, ruby-red busses on his cheeks. A moment later, in high good humor, Georgy stepped into a freight elevator, watched the steel door clank shut and cracked: "Ah ha, I see you have an Iron Curtain here. We've discarded it in Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Guests, Welcome & Unwelcome | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

Triggered by moist tropical air, which the Pacific jet stream freakishly shot in from Hawaii over cool northern Califor nia, a tremendous downpour began at mid-month. The downfall deposited as much as 31.5 inches of rain by Dec. 26, melted Sierra snowpacks like a blowtorch, streamed off steep hillsides in the rugged redwood country. Swollen mountain streams burst out of the woods like furious brown snakes, swallowing topsoil and drowning animals. The Klamath, Russian, Mad, Eel, Ten Mile, Navarro and other rivers picked up speed, boiled out of gorges toward the Pacific, wrecked railroads and cut coastal U.S. Highway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Visitor to California | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

What is a whale's spout made of? One theory: the spout is condensed vapor from the whale's moist breath. But in the tropics, where breath does not condense, the whale's spout is just as visible as in arctic cold. In Britain's Nature, Dr. F. C. Fraser and P. E. Purves tackle the old controversy again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Whales Don't Get the Bends | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

...general, they smelled a tornado when a layer of warm, moist air was covered by a layer of cool, dry air. The wind had to be strong and in the right direction, and the warm air at the surface had to be subject to a strong lifting action. When these conditions (and more subtle ones) coincided, a tornado was likely to lick out from the black center of a cloud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Predicting a Tornado | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

...business of publishing Miss Monroe. Her special A.N.P.A. edition was an obvious hit. Chatting with her, publishers beamed. Miss Monroe, as she moved among TIME'S guests, paused here and there before a statesman of the press to bestow her own version of the Pulitzer Prize: a big, moist-lip smile under half-closed eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, may 9, 1955 | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

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