Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Filling out the rest of the crew are a third pilot (who sits in for Draper or Thomas when either leaves his station), two flight engineers, a radio operator and three stewards (who always check with Draper to make sure that the plane is not headed for turbulent weather before they serve the President his meals). All carry printed cards listing special emergency procedures, and all frequently (and unobtrusively) run through emergency drills. Draper himself makes it a point to review emergency routines with the President, who, like any other plane passenger, fastens his seat belt when the warning goes...
...Weather in the Mountain. Last month Pilot Draper and his crew-as well as Press Secretary James Hagerty and a platoon of transportation, communications and security experts -took off in Ike's plane and flew to each airport on the President's itinerary to familiarize themselves with terrain, runway construction specifications (to make sure that landing strips could support the 248,000-lb. weight of the VC-137A), and to arrange for weather and safety controls...
...team needs a home for about two years until a proposed stadium is built in Norwood by a group that Sullivan also heads. The modern, all-weather field will be fit for baseball as well as football and has been mentioned as a future home...
...waterfowl biologist for the Michigan State Department of Conservation thought he knew: "Elderly hunters are affected seriously by low temperatures. Anderson stood up for a better crack at a flock of ducks, and his legs were undoubtedly numbed and out of control. In balmy October weather, there would have been no accident...
...MUSIC IN THE MORNING. Jazz, weather, news...