Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BELFAST, Northern Ireland, March 6--Prime Minister Harold Macmillan said today that he and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, canvassed "possible ideas of disarmament" in their Kremlin talks and made some progress...
...chanted in unison: "Neither internationalism nor Communism but Arab nationalism." At the municipal stadium a festive crowd roared as desert riders staged a camel race. Thus, as their hero arrived from Cairo this week with his guest and fellow neutralist, Tito of Yugoslavia, the people of Nasser's northern province (pop. 4,000,000) began celebrating the first anniversary of the merger of their country with Egypt in the United Arab Republic...
...wait for IGY to begin on July 1, 1957. On June 28 a huge flare erupted on the Sun's surface and hurled gas many thousands of miles into space. Two days later the Earth's magnetic field jumped erratically, radio waves blacked out over both poles, and northern and southern lights illuminated the skies...
...average person was scarcely aware that any kind of storm had struck the earth. A Minnesota family probably was unaware that the same phenomenon that produced the spectacular northern lights the evening of the tenth also permitted them to pick up BBC telecasts from London. A ham radio operator in Rhode Island with a normal range of fifty miles was startled to pick up a station from Texas, but a Trans World Airlines pilot had to fly thousands of miles over the North Pole without radio contact anywhere. As soon as the Sun set on the evening of the tenth...
...this task that many IGY personnel devoted themselves. A few years ago, a Harvard meteorologist, the late H.H. Clayton, tried to establish a connection between earthly weather and solar activity. It appeared that during peaks of sunspot activity there tended to be more icebergs in northern latitudes, while in the Temperate Zone temperatures were subnormal and precipitation abnormal. It might be pointed out that during the great magnetic storm of February 10 the eastern and central parts of the United States were suffering from the worst cold waves of the winter...