Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking ahead last winter, Speaker Joe Martin had predicted that foreign aid would run into stormy weather when it reached the House. He was right. But last week the biggest men in the House, on both sides of the aisle, joined forces to push the Eisenhower Administration's foreign-aid bill through...
...patience of Penelope and the optimism of Dr. Pangloss. Last week, as he stepped down as the head of one of the nation's largest school systems, he could claim a record of sorts. Few U.S. superintendents have sailed through quite so many tempests-or managed to weather them quite so well...
Never did a solar eclipse get as much attention as the one of last week. It could be seen-at least partially and weather permitting-by about one-third of the earth's population. Never was an eclipse so thoroughly observed...
...shadow of the moon swept northeast into Canada, it ran into more unfavorable weather. On the path of totality, near Hudson Bay, clouds covered the earth. Scientists from New York's American Museum of Natural History had a good observation point in an American Airlines plane that flew above the low clouds and dodged the patchy high ones...
Crossing Norway, Sweden and Finland, mostly covered with clouds, the shadow entered Russia, where more than 30 ground observatories, Russian and satellite, were waiting for it. Northern Russia was cloudy, but the weather improved in the south, and stations in the Caucasus had excellent observing. In Iran a U.S. expedition was clouded over, but Father Francis J. Heyden of Georgetown University made up for it partially by winning a $400 rug from Iranian astronomers. They had bet him that the eclipse would not happen...