Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three Virtues. The great virtues of the new system for the 5,000-mile ICBMs, according to Dr. Charles S. Draper (TIME, Dec. 10), head of M.I.T.'s Department of Aeronautical Engineering: extreme accuracy, interference-proof operation (weather, sunspots and enemy jamming attempts have no effect), and radio silence (no signal is sent or received...
...their spare time in Melbourne last fall trailing their hosts with notebook and stopwatch, trying to learn the Aussies' secrets. The Russians even tried an eight-course dinner-and-pumping session aboard the Soviet liner Gruzia. But the Aussies had nothing to hide. Their long months of balmy weather and seaboard beaches make waterbugs of thousands of Australians as soon as they can toddle. Once a youngster can keep his head above the surface, he can join one of 450 A.S.U. sponsored clubs, where competent coaches will teach him free of charge to swim with skill...
...torn pocket. The raincoat is to be worn to excess indoors, at Hayes-Bick's, for example, or in lecture, since besides the elements this garment is meant to fend off the hostilities of a mundane world, and by sheer yardage at that. A mutation in the foul-weather line is the army-surplus trenchcoat; while it does not have the buckles and straps and rings of a good Burberry, it is distinctively green and of a suitably rude material...
...would seem that the architects have been having almost as much fun with the geodesic dome as their youthful clientele. At this time, their structure is being used in polar weather stations, radar shelters, tents, and even a restaurant. The Play-dome hasn't hit the Harvard market yet, but it is only a matter of time and warm weather before the Charles is lined with hemispheres and sunbathers. The only problem in such a beach umbrella substitute would be its transportation--but geometry may have solved that too. Two geodesic domes fastened together make a geodesic sphere. Couples could...
Crystallized Ball. In Amarillo. Texas, after predicting lower winds and snow flurries, Weather Forecaster Lawrence Smith was stranded at the airport for 21 hours by a howling blizzard and 5-ft. snowdrifts...