Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year ago De Gasperi's government was reelected, but with such a narrow majority that it was, in fact, defeated. Fatigued and discouraged, the old mountaineer could not weather another crisis and submitted his resignation; other, younger hands took over. He continued to be an elder statesman, but in June he stepped down as president of the Christian Democratic Party. Now his noblest ambition was to become the first president of the United States of Europe...
Only a well-worn Briticism was adequate to describe this summer's weather in Britain and a good part of Western Europe: it was "absolutely filthy." Continuous rains drenched the country lanes of England and the sidewalk cafes of Paris. In mid-August, temperatures dropped to a chill 57° on the English Channel coast and hovered near freezing on the French side. London last week had its coldest August day since 1871; Wordsworth's famed Lake Country had its 32nd consecutive day of rain. Frigid Frenchmen threw up their hands in disgust and dismissed the whole season...
Flight to the Sun. Despite the ugly weather, however, swarms of U.S. tourists braved rain, wind and hail to do their duty by their midwinter dreams. Airlines were bursting at their seatbelts; hotels were crammed to the rafters. "Any connoisseur of curled lips," reported a Rome correspondent of Variety, "can add to his collection by simply asking a room clerk if there is a vacancy." Italy had a big influx of quickie "flying tours," with most visitors asking American Express the directions to the fountain into which Gregory feck and Audrey Hepburn threw coins...
...platform for a radar tower and a mass of sensitive electronic gear. Unlike similar outposts built by the British in World War II, the unarmed Air Force stations will seek only to locate, rather than destroy, enemy aircraft; they will also guide friendly fighters to the target, furnish weather information to ships and shore. For the 30-odd technicians assigned to each island, living will be cramped and bleak indeed; the Air Force plans to rotate its seagoing units every 30 days...
...reduced to scrap, but the Korean war postponed that fate. Last year a group of citizens began a campaign to bring the U-boat to Chicago, Dan Gallery's home town. The Navy was agreeable, and on June 26 Junior was welcomed to Chicago. This week, if weather and Lake Michigan permit, Junior will be hauled ashore in a momentous engineering operation and lugged across South Lake Shore Drive (traffic will be halted for twelve hours) to her final berth at the museum...