Word: tornados
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Texas. Only when he turned to one of his favorite subjects-fiscal responsibility in Government-did Ike sound like his old self. There is, he said, a "tornado of confusion'' in Washington. "We have been told we are balancing the budget, and the next day we are told how we have a $6.7 billion deficit. We have had advice and contrary advice. We have been told everything, and then it is refuted. You can see I have been confused. I believe this country is in a time of prosperity. If it cannot pay its debts, what is going...
Unable to straighten up completely because of her recent gall-bladder extraction (TIME, July 7), convalescent Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, 35, was further bent by a madding mob of 300 as she was propelled out of Manhattan's Polyclinic Hospital. While some blamed her new tornado tresses on the shoddy protection of her eight-man flying wedge of hospital attendants, insiders suspected the genius of Jacqueline Kennedy's coiffeur, Mr. Kenneth...
...isolated tornado or two is expected to occur from 4 to 7 o'clock p.m. in an area 60 miles north and south of Salina, Kans., running northeast to a line 40 miles north and 30 miles south of Kirksville...
...spring tornado season swirled into full blast on the Great Plains last week, such ominous warnings crackled constantly on TV and radio. And it was the proud boast of Meteorologist Donald C. House, head of the Weather Bureau's Severe Local Storm Center at Kansas City, that 55% of the bulletins were right on the button. Another 30% were near misses. Residents of "Tornado Alley" (the south central U.S.) were seldom surprised by unexpected twisters...
...stubborn search for an explanation, the bureau keeps a dozen airplanes on duty. Last week its weather squadron was near Oklahoma City, right in Tornado Alley, and whenever thunder threatened, a highflying, camera-laden U2* soared far above the thunderheads. Supersonic jets, laden with instruments, darted through the fringe of the clouds. Even far from the core they bounced suddenly from 75 m.p.h. updrafts to downdrafts moving just as fast. At the center of a storm, winds of 350 m.p.h. were not uncommon...