Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jerry Ford what he liked best: tramping through the snow with Henry Kissinger in Vladivostok to work out a SALT agreement or sending the Marines after the Mayaguez? Ten to one for peace. And Jimmy Carter will never come closer to heaven in this life than when he flew back from Camp David to announce that Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat had accepted his peace accords...
...first snow of winter fell on Warsaw last week, the honor guard stepped smartly up to Poland's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A crowd of 2,000, including a row of officials, watched in respectful silence as President Henryk Jablonski solemnly placed a wreath at the base of the granite monument. In hundreds of towns and cities throughout the Western world, Armistice Day is observed in much the same fashion. But the Polish ceremony marked a significant break with the Communist past, a symbol of rising patriotism that was finally acknowledged by the government, despite the possibility...
...Islamic Journey, V.S. Naipaul Elvis, Albert Goldman ∙ Lectures on Russian Literature, Vladimir Nabokov ∙ Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, Diana Trilling ∙ The Physicists, C.P. Snow Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, Janet Malcolm
...first of these instruments is the feature identification and location experiment (FILE), which examines the brightness of such features as vegetation, water, desert areas, snow, or cloud cover, using light sensors and television cameras. By classifying each feature in terms of its brightness reading, scientists can use FILE information to select which objects they want to focus on. Essentially, FILE acts as a data censor, and is one solution to the problem of land observation satellites continuing to collect unnecessary data even when clouds block their view...
...Islamic Journey, V.S. Naipaul Elvis, Albert Goldman ∙ Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, Diana Trilling ∙ The Physicists, C.P. Snow ∙ Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, Jacobo Timerman Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, Janet Malcolm