Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Modest Overcoat. Here you will meet taxi drivers and tailors and government workers and Carabinieri off guard duty at the pompous official buildings a few blocks away. On a particular evening last week, a short, broad-shouldered man in a modest heavy black overcoat, a weather-worn grey hat, came in about 9 o'clock and gave a casual "buona sera" to the grinning waiters, who know him well. He likes to come here often, to talk casually with the Italian workers and hear what they have to say. He came over and shook hands and sat down...
Future developments in the technique of precipitating clouds may enable weather scientists to control the climate of whole countries, or even continents. "But," says Dr. C. Guy Suits, General Electric's director of research, "until the legal problems are clarified, there will be great difficulty in carrying out large-scale experimentation." Dr. Suits's suggested remedy: a central organization patterned along the lines of the Atomic Energy Commission. With rainmaking control on a national scale, he thinks, a drought-stricken part of the country could be given real rain relief...
Colorado College, founded by a Union general, last week also reached for a West Pointer instead of a scholar. Its new head: lean, weather-beaten Major General William Hanson Gill, 61, who rebuilt the shattered 32nd Division after the Buna campaign, led it back to Leyte (TIME, Dec. 4,1944), defeated General Yamashita...
Aspen, Alta, and Sun Valley dominate western slope sliding with their fast, dry snow, bare mountain-sides, and long runs, Sun Valley even goes so far as to offer outdoor swimming all year around, and both Aspen and Alta are also blessed with mild weather...
...rocky and rugged Blue Ribben trail provides more schussing and less plummeting than last year. As long as the weather favors the south-facing trails, the skiing is smooth and fast, and popularity of the area has instigated plans for another network of trails and tows on the north side of the Mountain. The ski club's big annual slalom is held at Bromley...