Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with his military counterpart [TIME, Nov. 1], but must he not hold himself accountable for an equal portion of this deplorable spectacle? Americans have a weakness for making heroes of all who "arrive"-movie stars, football players, etc. It is indeed regrettable that only a few so acclaimed can weather the strain without becoming stage-struck prima donnas. Generals and scientists are not exceptions . . . Many scientists now feature themselves as authorities on international and domestic politics, industrial and governmental organization, finance, family relations, and military security. [They] seem to feel insulted ... if their every opinion, on whatever subject...
...weather will not necessarily harm the teams' passing--it did not stop Claude Benham in the Columbia game here--but it may increase the fumble totals, which are usually high in the tense Harvard-Yale games, especially when so many sophomores are in the lineups...
With a predicted top horizontal speed of over 500 m.p.h., the XFY-I is designed to give close Navy air cover to cargo ships, taking off and landing on a freighter's deck even in rough weather...
Since 1946, air-passenger miles have more than doubled, to 16 billion last year. Not only has the number of commercial planes in use soared from 674 to some 1,300, but the air is also filled with thousands of private and military planes. When bad weather slows landings and takeoffs, the traffic problem becomes dangerously acute over the nation's four busiest airways: Boston-Norfolk, New York-Chicago, San Francisco-San Diego, Seattle-Portland, Ore. Planes bound for New York are often held up for an hour in Cleveland until the congestion over Manhattan can be ended. Delays...
...backfields were performing about equally, a superior Harvard line outplayed Princeton's here today to give the Crimson a 14-9 win--its first over the Tigers since 1946. Although it was as close and sloppy as the varsity's five previous games, the third victory was played in weather as perfect as the outcome. It was no day to be in Cambridge...