Word: tornado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rope Dealer. Into this leadership vacuum has blown a tornado from the Southwest, a Texas-size (6 ft. 3 in., 204 Ibs.) hunk of perpetual motion named Lyndon Baines Johnson. To rank & file Democrats outside his own state of Texas, he is little more than a familiar name. But as minority leader of the U.S. Senate, moving around the Senate floor and into the Capitol Hill conference rooms, he has become the key U.S. Democrat as of June...
...Designated Georgia's tornado-scourged Muscogee and Macon counties as major disaster areas, thus qualifying the areas for FHA-guaranteed repair and replacement loans...
...Washington meeting of the American Meteorological Society last week, Glenn E. Stout of the Illinois State Water Survey showed the first radar movie of a full-grown tornado roaring across the prairie (see cuts...
...radarmen of the Water Survey first focused on a thundercloud which had suddenly grown a tail (the large blob of light near top in first cut). This was the start of the tornado funnel, still high in the air and shooting toward the east at about 48 m.p.h...
...radarmen followed their storm for 50 miles into Indiana. Then their radio told them that a destructive tornado had followed the exact path they had watched by radar...