Word: weather
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). "We Interrupt This Season" tosses a barbed lampoon at some staples of TV programming: election coverage, weather reporting, guided tours of famous places and those late-late, talk-talk shows...
There was little ground fighting in South Viet Nam last week, and bad weather cut down air action over the North. Yet, ironically, what combat there was reflected an escalation of sorts -by the Viet Cong. In one early-morning raid, the Communists sent 14 Russian-made 140-mm. rockets slamming into the U.S. airbase at Danang, damaging two planes and injuring 16 troops. Northwest of Saigon, Viet Cong mortars and recoilless rifles opened up on the 25th Infantry Division base at Cu Chi, wounding another seven Americans. Elsewhere around the country, enemy mortar shells and rockets were whistling through...
...formed easily discernible lines on the film that enabled experts to determine the approximate density and direction of bird concentrations. Meteorologists and biologists were then able to predict the location of the flock for the following few hours and warn pilots of its presence. "The predictions are based on weather and migration patterns," explains Engineer Malcolm Kuhring, who is chairman of the committee. "The birds fly with tail winds; they fly the pressure patterns...
During the 1965 spring-and fall-migration periods, the R.C.A.F. forecaster at Cold Lake added bird forecasts to his regular weather bulletins, predicting the bird movements around the clock and rating their intensity numerically from zero (for clear air) to eight (for a dense flock). The forecasts proved to be 83% accurate during the spring tests, about 70% in the fall-percentages that would make any conventional weatherman justifiably proud. They so impressed the local R.C.A.F. flight commander that he agreed to call off night training flights if the bird intensity reached a rating...
...Lovely weather we're having...