Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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September weather in Moscow is mild, but for Indonesia's President Sukarno there was evidently a chill in the air. "I come from ... a warm climate where it is not so cold as it is here," he told Soviet bigwigs, "but . . . your smiles have warmed me." The little President of the big and uncommitted republic of Southeast Asia flashed a friendly grin as he skipped through the Distinguished Visitors Routine (TIME, Sept. 17), but the grin was full of ambiguity. At a mass meeting in Moscow, sandwiched between effusive compliments, was a message that must have sounded strange...
...meteorologists who record the birth and upbringing of weather disturbances named her Emma, after Jane Austen's gentle heroine, the one who was so much in love with Mr. Knightley. At 4 one morning, Emma hit Okinawa with all the fury of a full-grown Pacific typhoon...
That thirst for knowledge which causes man to seek what lies in the heart of hurricanes and harridans had sent a U.S. B50 typhoon reconnaissance plane flying up into the thickest of the weather with 16 men aboard. Somewhere in Emma's maw the B50 broke radio contact and was never heard or seen again. Emma whipped on, toward Soviet Sakhalin...
...figured to be, handsome Harvie Ward well knew that any round of any amateur championship took all the concentration he could master. Day after day of match play always turns a tournament into a mess of upsets. At Lake Forest's Knollwood Country Club last week, even the weather pitched in to ruffle the field. Scores soared on damp, blustery winds. Co-Favorite Ken Venturi, Ward's San Francisco running mate, the man who almost won the Masters, disappeared in the third round. Californian Bob Roos, the ungainly golfer who beat Venturi, lasted only one more round...
...National Leaguers began to wonder just what class they were really in. Out on the field the front-running Milwaukee Braves and the World Champion Dodgers came all unstrung in their late-season fight for the flag. September was suddenly chill in the stands, and the voice of fair-weather fans cracked into silence. Their best teams had gone back to the bushes...