Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...false claims had to be confessed so that the planners could sharply drop their targets for next year. The party's communiqué put the blame for the false figures on "lack of experience in assessing and calculating output," and gloomily blamed the lowered output on bad weather, and the fact that reaping, threshing and storing "were all done in a somewhat hurried manner...
...initial attack had all the more impact because it came from an unexpected quarter. While Hollywood keeps a weather eye on church groups, it has never been in trouble with the Protestant National Council of Churches, which traditionally avoids anything that smacks of censorship. But last week the NCC was giving Hollywood fits. The issue, said George A. Heimrich, director of the council's West Coast Broadcasting and Film Commission, was movies that "overemphasize sex for sex's sake and violence for violence's sake." Added Layman Heimrich, before flying to New York to meet with other...
...lawn chemical sales are running 50% ahead of last year. In Marysville. Ohio, O. M. Scott & Sons, biggest U.S. lawn supply house, looked forward to a $30 million year, up $6,600,000 over record 1958. Said a Scott salesman: "We're almost embarrassed. If we ordered the weather, it couldn't be better for our business...
Military historians have recorded the tactics-an airdrop too far north of the main body at Arnhem, bad communications because of radio breakdowns, not enough air support in foggy weather, the capture of the complete Allied battle plan by the Germans. But it remains for Daniel Paul,*then 29, a captain-surgeon with the 16th Parachute Field Ambulance, to tell the personal story of that terrible battle. It is, he says, a story that "demanded to be written." He tells it deftly and quickly-as he would suture a wound...
Thurs., Aug. 27 Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). For steadfast summer viewers willing to suffer reruns, Nightmare at Ground Zero will make harrowing fare for a hot evening. Scientists at a 1954 A-bomb test are trapped by their own talents when the weather changes and an unexpected wind rains radioactive dust on their bunker...