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Novelist Ishlon tells her story in a two-part stream of consciousness, first through the oversimplified mind of the girl in a kind of Schreckengost-written prose, then through the hypomanic mind of the A. & R. man, who has abandoned serious composing and now sees himself as "a latter-day alchemist, compounding dross voices with banal notes to produce gold." Novelist Ishlon insists that Anna Lou Schreckengost is no one in particular. She could be an approximation of Cincinnati's Doris Kappelhoff, who-with 1946-3 Sentimental Journey-made famous her new name, Doris Day. But coincidence falls closer...
...favorite habitat of CAT is close to the jet stream, the narrow belt of high-speed wind that snakes around the earth from west to east in mid-latitudes, often reaching 250 m.p.h. The turbulent region below the jet stream may begin as low as 15,000 ft., increasing in roughness as it nears the stream (which is not itself normally turbulent) at an average of about 30,000 ft. Another layer of CAT rides on top of the stream, reaching to 40,000 ft. There is normally some turbulence on both sides of the jet stream, but the north...
Waiting for Bumps. Saying that CAT surrounds the jet stream does not help detect it. The stream is capricious, whipping up and down and from side to side like a shaken rope. The only way at present to find belts of CAT is to fly an airplane through a region where it may be -and wait for the bumps to begin. The Weather Bureau intends to do this if it can get the money to fly its elaborately instrumented hurricane-hunter planes during hurricane-free seasons. Such a course of flying may suggest ways to warn pilots of CAT ahead...
...disasters, the Tell City crash seems the most likely to have been caused by CAT. Otherwise, so far as is known, the worst that has happened is injuries to passengers, who got severely shaken. But jets are flying faster and higher, and when the jet stream is going their way, they make the best time by flying in it. So they meet more CAT and hit it harder...
...flocked, as though following the Pied Piper. When they got to Lamont, they often found no money for their programs. Often, Lament's oceanographic ship, the elderly schooner Vema., sailed without enough money to carry her past her first port of call. As Vema headed into the Gulf Stream, Ewing's land-based aides would telephone frantically around the U.S. in search of money to buy fuel and stores at Cape Town or Montevideo...