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Crowding in around J.D.R. Jr., exacerbating his public and private problems, came the pressures and problems of his time. Across the U.S. a tornado was roaring up against the robber barons, concentrating hardest and legitimately against the father, whipping fitfully at the son in cruel, sharp gusts. Day by day the muckrakers mocked J.D.R. Jr.'s 30? lunches, his marriage to Abby Aldrich (CROESUS CAPTURED), his regular talks to the men's Bible class of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. "With his hereditary grip on a nation's pocketbook," sneered the Pittsburgh Press, "his talks on spiritual...
Delivery of the radars will begin in 1958. The Weather Bureau will use the first ones to track hurricanes up the East Coast (now hazardously done by airplanes) and to watch for dangerous thunderheads in the tornado belt. Eventually the Weather Bureau hopes the gaps will be filled in and all the radars tied together in a nationwide network that will provide earlier and better weather forewarnings for farmers, sailors and householders from Spokane to Bangor...
Cook's specially equipped Mustang was ready for this year's tornado season, and he began his hunting on April 15. He carries 500 lbs. of weather instruments and a radio altimeter. A movie camera takes continuous pictures of the airplane's flying instruments. Whenever he thinks it worthwhile, Cook talks, in his calm drawl, to a tape recorder...
When he sees a likely cloud, he dodges in and out of it. He tries to avoid the seething cores, and when things get tough he ducks toward the ground, always keeping watch for the deadly funnel of a tornado...
Last year SELS correctly anticipated 32% of the tornadoes and scored near misses on another 30%. This season its tornado forecasts are right about half the time, and the information brought to earth by Cook (which will not be used in predictions until next year) should help to raise the score toward the Weather Bureau's goal of eight...