Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHILE Schoolteacher Aileen Holtje in Udall, Kan. worried about the weather and what dress to wear to her wedding shower (see Big Twister in NATIONAL AFFAIRS), tornado-wise Murray Gart of the Wichita Eagle shared her uneasiness. Gart, 30, a displaced Bostonian who is news editor of the Eagle, and TIME'S Wichita correspondent, knew it was impossible to outguess nature when the tails of twisters flap in the sky like shreds of a tattered flag. He could only wait...
...House sent to the Senate a $1.1 billion Commerce Department appropriation, after passing an amendment adding $2,250,000 to the Weather Bureau's funds for improving the emergency hurricane-and storm-warning system. The President's request for a crash program to complete the Inter-American highway in three years, instead of six, was rejected...
...salvos of rockets. The enemy on the beach quickly came to respect its sting, but the unhappy crewmen aboard just as quickly discovered that the LSMR was not designed as a pleasure craft. In the calmest seas, it shook like a dog emerging from a bath; in hurricane weather, it performed better, sloughing wildly over the long sea swells-but it was worth a man's life to step out on deck...
...Udall, Kans. (pop. 610) everyone was pleased when shy Schoolteacher Aileen Holtje announced her engagement. One night last week the womenfolk were giving her a wedding shower. All day long Aileen worried about what clothes to wear because of the contrary weather, which changed from rain to sultry heat to dusty winds; eventually, she decided on a summery nylon print dress. As the party began, thunder rumbled in the southwest, and a woman said uneasily that tornado warnings were out- clear to Texas...
...home in Udall, Lester Sweet turned on his TV set to catch the weather report: tornado warnings had been broadcast all day, and he was "deathly afraid." He heard an all-clear at 10:20 p.m. and was just settling into bed when the house cracked open. "We're in for it," he yelled to the wife, pushing her and the children under the bed. "We could hardly breathe with the vacuum and the dust," he said later. "It was like being in an echo box, with everybody yelling so loud you couldn't hear...