Word: weather
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...science they have been doing wouldn't intrigue most Harvard science wonks, since it's primarily the sort of observational work that engaged nineteenth century researchers: ice, wildlife, weather, and ocean depth surveys, plus simple physical and psychological tests on the effects of their bleak environment. However, these elementary investigations are crucial to cold regions researchers whose limited data on this huge area so far has come chiefly from a few itinerant ice island stations maintained by the U.S. and U.S.S.R., and from an international ice observation study called Project Bird...
...evacuated it 192 years ago. This summer it is being occupied by an antiforce, as hippies from all over the U.S. invade it for what may be the flagging flower world's last great love-in. They spend their days singing, sleeping and making love. As the hot weather sets in, they frolic in the Frog Pond or listen to rock concerts by such groups as the Ultimate Spinach...
...Americans tend to make rather heavier weather of it. Take Marylou Whitney, whose husband Sonny (Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney to you) was a principal backer of Pan American World Airways, Gone With the Wind and enough other ventures to qualify him as a one-man conglomerate. She has five children and five establishments in Lexington, Ky., Saratoga, Manhattan, Manitoba, Canada, and 100,000 acres of the Adirondacks. So Marylou and her two secretaries (one in New York and one in Kentucky) spend a lot of time in a welter of lists, files and details. She likes to dash off notes...
...rhetoric toward reality in their meetings. North Viet Nam's chief negotiator in the peace talks, Xuan Thuy, went out of his way to belittle American suggestions that longer tea or coffee breaks between the formal sessions represented some progress, noting ironically: "We talk about the seasons, the weather, the food, the scenery...
...nonetheless poured in troops, building up to some 5,700 U.S. Marines and a 500-man South Vietnamese Ranger battalion. The Marines were not anxious to make a stand there: they sat at the end of a 27-mile supply line on Communist-interdicted Highway 9, the weather was turning bad with the onset of the Northeast monsoon, and they had done little in the way of fortifying the isolated defense complex...