Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...backlands traveling salesman, sat in Congress as a Colorado. He quit in disgust when told to confine himself to drawing his pay and keeping his mouth shut. Taking to the air in 1942, gossipy Benito Nardone set out to woo the farmers, got their rapt attention by giving weather and crop information, advising farm workers to organize, "so you will not be cheated by city cutthroats and moneylenders." He organized 250 chapters of a Rural Federation, soon claimed 120,000 votes, and when this year's campaign began, he toured the backlands, drew big crowds for the Nationals...
First, though, many roadblocks must be cleared away. "Too many commuters," says Heineman, "use the train only when weather is bad, but drive their own cars to town when the weather is good. Well, if they want a $1,000,000 piece of equipment to be waiting at the station for them every day, they had better pay for it every day." The Heineman plan aims to turn the fair-weather riders into faithful, fulltime riders. To do it, the North Western more than doubled prices of one-way tickets for close-in riders, thus making it costly...
...ship from the Ansaldo yards, the Cristoforo Colombo, the Leonardo upholds the Italian reputation for style and tourist catching comfort, from her rakishly angled superstructure to her 536 cabins equipped with individually controlled air conditioning and infra-red heat, and her retractable stabilizer fins for smoother steaming in rough weather. Planned for 1,300 passengers, compared to the Doria's 1,290, the Leonardo at 32,000 tons and 760 ft. is 10% heavier and longer. The extra weight is accounted for by safety precautions, including additional compartmenting of the hull. The Doria sank when three of its twelve...
Died. Sir Hubert Wilkins, 70, Australian flying explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic, adviser to the U.S. military on cold weather survival, who was knighted by George V for his 1928 flight of 2,200 miles across the Arctic icecap, three years later navigated a submarine named the Nautilus beneath the icecap in an unsuccessful attempt to reach the North Pole under water; in Framingham, Mass. Wilkins learned his first lessons in cryogeography on an Arctic expedition with Vilhjalmur Stefansson, who taught him "to work like a dog and then eat the dog." Sir Hubert's 1928 flight from...
...Weather of the Heart. An oldtime literary colleague of Pasternak's and a party-liner, who has managed to survive Moscow's murderous political traffic by carefully watching the Kremlin lights, ventured (before the Nobel Prize fracas) to praise Doctor Zhivago. Said Ilya (The Thaw) Ehrenburg: "The description of those days is excellent. Pasternak and I belong to the same generation, so I can pass judgment on this." But the editors of the Moscow magazine Novy Mir, to whom Pasternak submitted the manuscript in 1956, stated the Communist case against the novel. Apart from Pasternak's sympathy...