Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Symphony is less radical than many of Ives's works. A passionate, lyrical piece, it contains unmistakable echoes of the great German romantics-Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner-but positioned neatly after their Olympian periods are Ives's variations on Turkey in the Straw, Columbia the Gem of the Ocean, even that old Dartmouth drinking song, Where, Oh Where, Are the Pea-Green Freshmen? After passages of spacious solemnity, the horns break suddenly into a capering phrase from Camptown Races; in the midst of the frenzied final movement, doleful woodwinds sound forth with Old Black Joe. Even the ending...
...egrets' migration to the Western Hemisphere is one of today's most fascinating ornithological puzzles. Never had a land bird migrated 3,000 miles across the ocean from Africa and settled successfully on the other side. The cattle egret is a strong flyer (30 m.p.h.) and a notorious wanderer. But most of its earlier nomadism had been confined to Africa and Europe, where it has been spotted among herds of cattle all the way from the British Isles to the Cape of Good Hope...
...blastoff, the Atlas exploded and disintegrated. From the capsule itself came radio signals for 3½ minutes after the launching, indicating that only the Atlas booster had been destroyed, that the capsule had hit the sea intact. A day later recovery teams retrieved sections of the capsule from the ocean...
...somewhat greater distance; even aircraft at 45,000 ft. can see only 150 miles. Between the observers are wide-open spaces big enough to hold whole strings of tornadoes. Some 80% of the earth's surface has no reporting stations at all. In many unfrequented parts of the ocean, a hurricane can be born and grow to adulthood in perfect privacy...
...operational successors of Tiros I will probably revive a 19th century method of weather prediction called "neph analysis" (nephos-Greek for cloud). Weathermen in Antarctica will welcome satellite cloud pictures to tell them whether it is safe for a supply plane to start from New Zealand. The Indian Ocean, where few ships or airplanes pass, will be watched by neph analysis for juvenile typhoons...