Word: stream
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Four Conference in Geneva. In July he represented his father at the funeral of Guatemala's assassinated President Castillo Armas (TIME, Aug. 5). Last week he wound up his two-month chores for White House Brigadier General Andrew Goodpaster, the President's staff secretary, sifting the stream of secret reports which daily pour into the White House...
Died. Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby, 58, world-famed Swedish-born weatherman (TIME, Dec. 17), organizer (1927) of the U.S.'s first airway weather-reporting system, pioneer in modern air-mass-analysis forecasting techniques, discoverer of the "jet stream," founder of Stockholm's International Meteorological Institute; of a coronary thrombosis; in Stockholm...
Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion and others once looked forward to a stream of Jews from the U.S. who would pour into Israel to help the unskilled immigrants from Eastern Europe and Africa build the new country with their American know-how. But even zealous Zionists in the U.S. tended to send money instead-and many felt that their contributions entitled them to a say in Israel's affairs...
...right, amazingly lighted on a toehold and handhold. In twelve hours the climbers inched upward only 1,000 ft., camped at dark on a precarious ledge. Throats parched, they longed for the water they had left behind in order to travel light (total equipment: 18 lbs.), listened to a stream rippling inside the rock out of sight...
...East zone Communists have showered the choir with state prizes and given its directors a free musical hand. Every year 2,000 or so applicants stream into Leipzig for tryouts. Choir members still rehearse five hours a day, learn a new Bach cantata each week, give three public concerts every weekend. State-supported now, the school has at various times been so poor that it was kept going only by flying squads of choristers who wandered through the city singing for alms...