Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exam period has not yet begun and the library is already full. If the warm weather of last week returns, Lamont may be one of the few cool places left in the College. To stem the flood of refugees from the heat, Lamont might well check bursar's cards or, better still, install parking meters on the study cubicles. These measures would keep out outsiders, discourage nonscholars, and bring in even more money than library fines. Let the unwanted beat a path to Widener...
...subterranean errors. To produce his new edition, he spent four tireless years writing to authorities the world over to verify birth and death dates and fill in biographical lacunae. The Vienna Bureau of Meteorology, for instance, helped him verify the fact that Beethoven died during a violent storm: the weather report of March 26, 1827 noted that a thunderstorm with heavy winds broke over the city at 4 p.m., shortly before Beethoven died...
...said that if the nations of the world cooperate, tremendous benefits--such as long-range weather forecasting and improved radio communications--can be expected in the fairly near future from earth satellites...
...wild blue yonder, he is also readying new gadgets for planes. His newest commercial product: the $1,500 Navcom (combination communications and navigation instrument box), which puts even single-engined or twin-engined executive-type planes on a par with big commercial airliners when flying on instruments through rough weather...
...fast-growing field of private flying, predicts that it will expand fourfold by 1965, is spending $1,200,000 a year on new-product research. To make the crowded air safer, the CAB last year drafted a proposed order directing planes intending to fly in all weather to install airline-quality equipment by 1961. The order roused such protests on grounds of expense that it was withdrawn. Lear is confident that a similar order will eventually be issued, says his low-priced Navcom meets all the Government requirements...