Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broad gold stripes on his sleeve, barges through the door at 31 knots. This freighter-shaped (5 ft. 11 in., 200 Ibs.) admiral, his ties fast to the old Navy and all its traditions, is plunging ahead in a new and astonishing naval era at the same hell-for-weather clip described by a destroyer shipmate from the Solomons Slot: "It's always been the same. All boilers on the line, superheaters cut in. Arleigh Burke...
There are no electrical controls which could be operated from a warm roow below. As the epileptic Russian had insisted, the ringer must stand among his bells and communicate with them directly by chains, regardless of the Cambridge weather or the wind, in the open cupola...
...glance through the catalogue reveals the danger of making generalizations about either students or their interests. While arts and crafts are the most popular courses, subjects range from "Why the Weather" to "Five Plays of Bernard Shaw" and "The Art of Decoupage." Those to whom current events are a mystery may take "Whats Going On?" while conversationalists who read can enroll in "Books and Coffee." There is "Bach for Beginners" and "Bird Study," "Poetry Writing" and "Playing Popular Music." Nine language courses are taught, and no fewer than eleven different music courses are on the curriculum...
...special committee to survey the effects of radiation "on man and his environment." But this country has proceeded, nevertheless, with plans for bigger and better H-bomb tests in the Pacific, and cancelled last week's not because of possible danger from radiation, but because of poor weather conditions. Perhaps for once bad weather did the world a good turn...
...Different Breed. It is nine years now since Author Athas wrote a small but heartbreaking first novel, The Weather of the Heart (TIME, June 2, 1947), a tragedy of teen-age lovers which proved absolute authority in that difficult literary place, the world of childhood. She is back in that world again, with the additional passport of one who taught algebra to the blind after leaving college. That the problems she sensed were deeper than those she put to her students is clearly evident in The Fourth World, a world as eerie and haunting as any that this year...