Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Weather-Plagued Test. Washington's report on fallout was prompted by two main considerations. President Eisenhower and the AEC wanted to re-emphasize the need for 1) civil defense in the U.S., and 2) a continued campaign for realistic international control of atomic weapons...
...spite of wet brush (which hampers the dogs' work), a cold wind (which causes quail to take cover) and the gathering dusk, the President and the Secretary of the Treasury bagged two birds each. But for most of the time the President was in Georgia, the weather was so unpleasant that he stayed inside and resorted to bridge. This week Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower were back in the White House to observe, as they always do, their engagement anniversary. On St. Valentine's Day, 39 years ago, Lieut. Eisenhower gave a duplicate of his West Point class ring...
...keep the copy moving, U.P. held open a Moscow-London telephone line for 7½ hours (at $1.65 a minute). Between bulletins, staffers talked about the weather, sports, food and anything else they could think of. Other newsmen tied up the three other telephone lines to London for so long that foreign diplomats in Moscow could not phone reports home to their governments. In Washington, the State Department got the news from reporters more than two hours before U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen got his official report through...
...study it from its bottom. It can also observe meteors as they arrive from space, including the swarming "micro-meteors" that may be a serious obstacle to long-range space voyaging. These tiny, swift particles are believed to exert a powerful effect on the earth's weather, and they are almost impossible to observe from "down deep in the atmosphere...
...Stone Age, which Captain Cook doomed in 1770, the aborigines painted on cliffs and in caves. Today their descendants explain that ancient rock pictures of hunting and dancing stick men, in northern Australia, were done by Mimis. ("Mimis" are so thin they can hunt only in still weather, and so shy they have never been seen.) For the haloed, mouthless figures painted in caves in the Kimberley district, they have a different explanation: Wondjina (gentle fertility gods) first made them by casting shadows on the rock. Before each rainy season, the aborigines retouch the divine shadows with red and yellow...