Word: overcasts
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...President Ngo Dinh Diem was absorbed in a biography of George Washington, the gift of a recent U.S. visitor. At the sudden roar of an airplane engine, he looked up, hurried out to the balcony in time to see a fighter plane swooping toward him through the early morning overcast...
...cold and overcast on the Baltic coast. Rusted strands of barbed wire run over the sand dunes and dip into the sea. Across the border in East Germany is a vista of desolated heath, broken only by a squat Communist watchtower. Some 20 yds. beyond the barbed-wire barricade, the East Germans have hacked through the underbrush and cleared a strip of land 15 ft. wide. Later, I found that it rambled the entire length of the frontier. The purpose of the strip is to enable authorities to trace the footsteps of fleeing East Germans to determine their route...
...Milanese even defend their weather-last year Milan had 200 days of rain, hail, snow, sleet, fog and overcast. They assure visitors: "It's the kind of climate that keeps you moving. In Rome, all you feel like doing is looking out the window." A Milanese is always going somewhere: to his job, or to one of the cafes and bars in the glass-domed Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, or to Italy's largest railway station to board the express to Rome, or to a business appointment in the slim, 33-story Pirelli Building, which is Western Europe...
...transmissions, since they do not bend around the curve of the earth, travel only along line-of-sight paths. When a message (Teletype, code or facsimile) is to be sent to Hawaii, an 84-ft. dish antenna at Annapolis, Md. is pointed at the moon. If the weather is overcast, the signal is aimed at the moon's calculated position-clouds do not affect it. The 100-kw. signal fades to a faint whisper during its 480,000-mile trip, but it slants down from space in an admirably dependable manner. In the heavy magnetic storm of November...
Next day, beneath leaden skies, Mamie Eisenhower and Mrs. George Allen arrived by train; on hand to meet them were Ike and Jester George, whose early-October Palm Springs hospitality the Eisenhowers were returning. As they chatted on the platform, Mamie looked at the overcast, said to Mary Allen: "If the sun doesn't shine, Ike will be mad." Ike, sporting the National's green blazer and a grey and tan checkered sports shirt, replied confidently: "Don't worry, it will burn off." Sure enough, sunshine poked through the clouds that afternoon; after some paper work...