Word: weather
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weather-beaten, century-old farmhouse overlooking the St. George River near Gushing, Me., is one of the most familiar structures in America. Called "the Olson farm," it stands bleak and solitary above a brown-grass hillside in Andrew Wyeth's acclaimed and much reproduced painting, Christina's World. Now the house belongs to Hollywood Producer Joe Levine (Two Women, Divorce-Italian Style), who owns 13 Wyeths and has just paid $30,000 so that the house can be preserved and restored as a Wyeth museum. The producer and his wife paid a visit to Gushing to sign...
...major reason for the glut is bumper crops resulting from good weather. On top of that, the major exporting nations, except the U.S., have expanded their wheat acreage. In Australia, for example, the amount of farm land devoted to wheat has doubled in the last five years. Improved technology and a new high-yield strain of dwarf wheat have greatly reduced the annual import needs of food-shy India and Pakistan. Both countries now expect to become self-sufficient in wheat production by the mid-1970s...
Making Contact. Even so, the FAO feels that its program is succeeding. In 1958, locusts devoured 167,000 tons of crops in Ethiopia, starving thousands. Last summer the anti-locust London Center got reports of gathering clouds of locusts that posed an even greater threat. From weather satellite pictures of cloud formations, trackers could map wind patterns. Since locusts ride the winds, spray planes knew where to go. Once they had made contact, they dumped their loads of spray through atomizers, one right after the other, until the swarms were stopped. On the ground, pesticide squads struck breeding areas...
...bright sunny day. Before his blonde wife Hilla even pouts on the morning tea in their Düsseldorf apartment, she looks outside, hoping to see the kind of lead-gray overcast for which Germany's Ruhr Valley is noted. Becher's concern with the weather is not a matter of whim. He is a photographer, his subject the collieries, mills, water towers and other rugged structures of Europe's coal and steel industries. Only a dull diffused light, he has found, can properly set off the austere, utilitarian designs produced by the Industrial Revolution long before...
...voyage is a rather costly gamble. The companies have spent nearly $40 million readying the ship and crew, and the stakes are even higher. What could be the country's largest oil reserves have been discovered under the snows of the remote North Slope, but the distance and weather conditions raise drilling costs to double those for bringing oil out of the ground in the U.S. In order to sell the Alaska oil at competitive prices, Humble and its partners must find an economical way to bring it down south...