Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cricks & Daffodils. To Alaskan oldtimers, even the weather had augured well for statehood. Not since 1912, when Alaska first became an organized territory and won its first real, if tiny, measure of home rule, had the winter been so mild and the breakup so early. Parkas, mukluks, beaver caps and sealskin coats were thankfully stored away. The ice was gone from the Yukon River, and from the Porcupine, the Koyukuk and the Selawick. Out to Woodchopper, to Steel Creek, Poorman and a hundred other placer gold camps, packed the glint-eyed prospectors in search of a glint in the sand...
Stringless Yo-Yo. We were in a weird state whose most experienced explorer is Major Herbert Stallings Jr. of the School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph A.F.B. (Texas). He has racked up a total of about 38 weightless hours. But bad weather and reassignment of planes had ruled out Major Stallings as my guide. Instead, I became the guest of the Tactical Air Command at Langley A.F.B., just inside the Virginia capes. Assigned to the project was Lieut. Colonel Devol ("Rock") Brett, skipper of the 355th Fighter Squadron and son of World War II's Lieut. General George...
...special appeal of Sea Hunt lies in its power to float its fans right through their TV screens into the unearthly realm where its churning action chiefly occurs. Hungarian-born, Hollywood-based Producer Tors has roved from the Marshall Islands to the Caribbean in his own hunt for sunny weather, clear water, exotic fauna and flora. Last year he tied himself under a canoe, inspected coral reefs off the Colombian coast of South America while an Indian paddled. This week he is filming near Mexico's Coronado Islands. Soon he will scout the waters off Australia, New Zealand...
Spasibo. In the city's hottest May weather in 79 years, elite Muscovites peeled last week to shirtsleeves and sat entranced in the same hall in which Pianist Van Cliburn triumphed. Swaddled in white ties and tails, the visitors played "Incandescently," reported New York Times Critic Howard Taubman. The first-night audience stopped applauding only so that the orchestra could play another selection: an intense Strauss Don Juan, a powerful Beethoven Seventh Symphony, a rare performance in Russia of U.S. Composer Aaron Copland's Quiet City. And they went wild after the orchestra's richly sonorous playing...
...This creation and stimulation of desire has put more people to work and, in turn, made their desires possible to fulfill. But what if this desire is gone? I will tell you. When a car becomes nothing more than transportation, when new clothes become nothing more than protection against weather and immodesty, when a house is only a shelter, when the thrill is gone out of buying and pride fades out of ownership, we are headed for something worse than a mere depression. We are headed for a whole new kind of economy that none of us are going...