Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rain on the Roof. In Fresno, Calif., three boys hurled stones at the Fresno Hacienda Motel from a highway overpass, were swiftly taken into custody by members of the State Juvenile Officers Association attending a convention in the motel...
Right from the start the weather tampered with the odds. Rain softened the course and slowed the slick greens, creating the kinds of conditions that make par (72) beatable. Ten golfers beat it-and the one who beat it most was a self-assured, young (24) automobile salesman from San Francisco. In the first round Amateur Ken Venturi, a protege of Veteran Byron Nelson, grabbed the Masters' lead with a flashing...
...rain-dampened track at Melbourne's Olympic stadium, World Champion Miler John Landy figured to run his favorite distance in no better than 4:04. But as he breezed past the three-quarter-mile mark he heard his time announced as 3 min. flat. He decided to turn it on, finished the final quarter in a blazing 58.6 sec. to break the 4-min. barrier for the fourth time in five races. The 3:58.6 time is 0.6 sec. off Landy's world record...
Japan's bomb watchers have not yet reached full conclusions about the Soviet tests announced last week (without details) by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. They are pondering two facts: 1) the rain that fell on Shikoku Island on March 24 was the most intensely radioactive that has yet fallen on Japan; 2) none of the government's 13 microbarograph stations recorded any shock wave...
Raytheon's airway radars, which have revolving antennas 40 ft. wide, are modeled after equipment used in military air-warning networks. Raytheon engineers are confident that they can track large commercial airliners, flying 70,000 ft. up, 200 miles away. When rain clouds cut off the view of a distant airliner, the radar can switch to a special "circularly polarized" wave that is reflected differently by spherical raindrops and the metal surfaces of wings and fuselage. This gimmick makes an airliner visible even behind a rain cloud. Another gimmick makes the radar blind to all objects that...