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Such winds do not directly concern the pilots of conventional propeller planes, whose normal ceiling is in the quieter air below 20,000 ft. But the great new jetliners cruise most efficiently in the high, thin air above. Their crews and dispatchers need detailed, fresh information about the tremendous high-altitude winds that crisscross the middle latitudes. To meet their need, the Weather Bureau has announced plans for a new high-altitude forecasting service, hoped to have it in full operation in time for next month's start of jetliner service across...
Throughout Paris, De Gaulle's direct appeal to the rebels (hinting of a quieter mediation already in progress) brought relief. It was a triumph, not of politics, but of pure personality that enabled him to make his offer; as always, he remained the man above party. In the coming elections, he said, he would "not disapprove" of any party's support, nor would he discourage opponents who "will make use of the liberty they accuse me of wanting to destroy." But his mission ruled out his taking any particular party's side. "This impartiality obliges...
Things were never to be quite that good again. Harvard football had come a long way from "Bloody Monday; and although Yale was to be The Game in college football for many years to come, Saturdays were going to get an awful lot quieter...
...rough, gaudy amusement quarter of Hamburg known as Sankt Pauli, where anything goes, one of the quieter attractions-but a good one-was white-thatched, bushy-mustached Otto Witte, a lifelong circus performer who made his first public appearance as a lion tamer at the age of eight. All Otto had to offer was stories, but it was a blase man indeed who could walk away from Otto's tales of how his skill at magic won him the honorary chieftainship of an African Pygmy tribe, or of the time that he tried to elope with the Emperor...
...chorus showed signs of the strain of singing against the organ, and the big sections were loud without being rich and full. The quieter sections were much better; the pianissimos of the opening chorus proved far more dramatic than the fortissimos of the brawling final chorus...