Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Weather Bureau predicted that the rain will continue through tonight. The Bureau expects skiing to be good this weekend, since two to five more inches of snow are expected in the Berkshire area...
...documentary but "a show, with accurate physical facts-a fresh attempt to glamorize science." So are his three upcoming TV ventures for Bell: Hemo, The Magnificent, the story of blood and circulation; The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays, treated as "a detective story"; and The Unchained Goddess, on weather and meteorology. Like Sun, each will bear the endorsement of the nation's most eminent scientists, be released at three-month intervals. The human spirit, Capra explains, has three main outlets: the artistic, religious and scientific. "They are all after the same truth. The artistic tries to find...
...weather had been gloomy for weeks, but for the games it kindly brightened. From the opening shot of a starter's gun, they got off to a crowd-pleasing start, and Olympic records fell like eucalyptus leaves. And, scorekeeping or no, it quickly became a suspenseful duel between the U.S. and Russia. The U.S. fielded the best team ever assembled- including such 1952 Olympic champions as Shotputter Parry O'Brien (see below). Soviet Russia, shut out of all the gold medals in men's track at the Helsinki Olympics, sent to Australia a well-trained and determined...
PRIVATE PILOTS are alarmed over new proposal by Government Air Coordinating Committee for all-weather, 24-hour control of every plane in sky by ground stations. Pilots of nation's 65,000 private planes fear order would force all flyers to get expensive equipment to apply for instrument ratings. Probable outcome: commercial and military planes would have high altitudes all to themselves, fly on instruments only, while private flyers would be held to lower levels, allowed to fly by either vision or instruments...
...public's point of view, but there appears to be no ready solution which might come about in the next few years. It seems unlikely that the New York, New Haven, and Hartford will change their ways in the near future (the line now blames "inclement weather" for the bulk of its delays), and to start a system of twice-daily deliveries throughout the entire area is not presently feasible, according to Post Office authorities. Though such a plan would get the New York mail out regularly, it would also be quite costly...