Word: snowstorms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...within the Styrofoam. "We checked her temperature every hour," says Feidler, who found it rising slowly but no faster than anticipated. "I would be less than truthful if I didn't say that I had apprehensions." A five-hour delay in landing was caused by an East Coast snowstorm. At New York, customs officials, alerted by Washington, passed the suitcase without opening it. A private plane flew it to the capital; there it was taken to the National Gallery, unwrapped, found to be at precisely 68°, and placed in a vault to "decompress" to the gallery...
This is still her position. Hilles is a novelty, she maintains, and needs time for a "trial cruise." "--Wait for the first snowstorm to see what happens to the crowd," she says. At any rate, until the study is completed next week, there is no pressing need to find a solution...
...Feast. As the car plowed through a snowstorm along the turnpike, Rubinstein gaily sang along with the car radio in a voice that sounded like a gargling cello. He pulled out a great smokestack of a cigar, passed it beneath his nose, pierced one end, lit it, puffed three times, closed his eyes, leaned back and sighed, "Ahhh, good!" Basking in a lazy curl of smoke, he mused: "At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to risk, to dare. I want to be surprised by what comes...
Beneath Silver Wattle. His real mettle will be tested, however, on long cross-country runs through the steep hills. And each weekend, rain, shine or snowstorm, hiking parties set out after class on Friday, live until Sunday afternoon in the bush, cooking johnnycakes and damper (a sconelike bread). They cover up to 100 miles of trail beneath silver wattle and broad-leaf peppermint trees, scramble across crumbly dacite rocks. They also tramp six miles to reach ski runs on Mount Stirling, where there are no tows or lifts...
...some astronomers speculate that comets are the debris flung off by larger planets out beyond the earth. The most widely accepted theory holds that a vast cloud completely surrounds the solar system. According to Fred Whipple of the Smithsonian Observatory, about 4.6 billion years ago the cloud (a giant snowstorm") began to condense into separate bodies-"dirty snowballs" of dust and ices made up of methane, ammonia and water. Some of these bodies were captured by the outer planets and fell onto them, and some fell into the sun. About 1% of them, Whipple thinks, have gone into orbit around...