Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lalla Aisha, 27, (TIME, Nov. 11), Lalla Malika, 20, Lalla Nuzha, 17, and little Lalla Amina, 4-from Rabat, to share with them the last six days of his whirlwind visit. He sped on to San Francisco for two days, then hopped to Omaha, where he arrived in freezing weather, later was escorted all around the Strategic Air Command's headquarters, including a spelunking expedition through its vast underground communications center. Remarking that by now he was "awfully tired," Mohammed canceled a slated trip to Niagara Falls. At week's end, with "a little extra rest" to buoy...
...Priority. Moving from past and present to the potentials of the future, Teller predicted that the Russians "within the next decade or two" may be able to manage even the weather. Said he: "Please imagine a world in which the Russians can control weather in a big scale, where they can change the rainfall over Russia, and that might very well influence the rainfall in our country in an adverse manner . . . What kind of a world will it be where they have this new kind of control...
...simultaneously (at 3:08 p.m.) flashed the first wire-service bulletins. Said the U.P.: "Ike has heart attack." Said the I.N.S. brain-twister: "Ike has a mild cerebral heart attack." The Associated Press lead, two minutes later, restrainedly quoted.the less dramatic verdict of a cerebral occlusion, but kept its weather eye on the headlines by explaining that "the White House called it 'a form of heart attack.' " Half an hour later, when all three wire services backed away from the heart-attack approach, many evening papers in the East were already on the streets with editions that bannered...
Marvelous Mudder. The quick Navy line bounced and jittered through so many defensive formations that Army Mockers got as fouled up as the weather. The Army infantry could never get rolling, and the cadets fell back on old-fashioned three-P football: punt, pass and pray for the breaks. They kicked repeatedly on third down, completed a couple of passes, even got a few breaks when Navy backs fumbled the waterlogged ball. But all their prayers only produced a Navy attack for which they could not fathom an answer...
...other hand, many market experts realize that the same psychological whimsy that has sent the market into a slump can halt its decline at the least sign of brightening economic weather. At week's end, Wall Street kept an anxious eye on the business barometers. Said Walston & Co.'s Edmund W. Tabell, one of the Street's top market analysts: "If Christmas sales and automobile sales pick up, 420 will be the bear market...