Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perennially powerful Holy Cross baseball squad will attempt to snap the Crimson's eight-game winning streak in Worcester today. Weather permitting, the non-league contest will begin on the Crusaders' Fitton Field...
...Adverse weather conditions however, have severely hampered the Crusader nine, and it has not had the extensive practice which the Crimson gained in its spring trip and many ball games...
...below), Chou kept his schedule secret. At its stops his plane was surrounded by troops; it carried ten 45-gallon drums of fuel from home. When required to take on more gas (Standard-Vacuum) at Rangoon, the Communists gave the fuel a litmus-paper test. Although forced down by weather at Singapore, Chou got to Indonesia safely. At the airport, the Indonesians even went so far as to bar some of their own officials. Less melodramatically, Bandung's other featured performers streamed in. From Manila came ebullient Carlos Romulo, determined to fight off any effort to turn Bandung into...
...first rains of the monsoon showered down upon Saigon (pop. 2,000,000), cooling the weather but not the city's jittery nerves. There were quiet Buddhist ceremonies in Chinese pagodas, a pink and white wedding at the cathedral, and an outward pose of calm. But heavily armed gangsters and cops of the Binh Xuyen sect, in their arsenic-green berets, patrolled the boulevards, ordering traffic, and blockading the city's approaches so that they could control the price and supply of rice. Steel-helmeted nationalist paratroopers of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem were also out on patrol...
...local masses of susceptible clouds. Rainmaking might possibly start meteorological chain reactions, conjure up violent storms, bring blizzards whistling down from Canada, or even beckon hurricanes off the open sea. This possibility had a military angle: timely cloud-seeding from a safe distance might mess up the weather of an enemy country. Last week Meteorologist Dr. Jerome Spar of New York University laid this interesting ghost, or at least cut it down considerably, by reporting on the lack of success of the Navy's recently declassified "Project Scud." While maintaining a neutral position, Dr. Spar agreed that the thing...