Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weather was balmy and bright in Los Angeles, but a fog of gloom sometimes seemed to invade the Association of American Law Schools convention held there last week. Amid the many speeches and panel discussions, two somber questions recurred several times: Is the legal profession in the U.S. getting only barely passing grades in professional ethics? And is it flunking in social responsibilities...
...Gerdes joined P.G. & E. in 1929, worked mainly on legal and financial affairs before replacing Norman Sutherland as president last July (Sutherland died a few weeks later from cancer-TIME, Sept. 13). Though a native Californian, Gerdes has a utility man's notions about the profitability of bad weather. "We like it wet and dark," he says, "and the colder the better...
Even if the weather is as good as Californians claim it is, P.G. & E. will spend $2.4 billion in the next 17 years to triple its kilowatt output to 15 million a year by building 16 new generating plants, mostly nuclear-powered. The company pioneered in private nuclear power, already has two plants in operation...
...high. They will show clouds on the dark side of the earth and measure changes of water vapor in the air. When all this new information is analyzed continuously by quick-thinking computers, meteorologists will at last be able to watch all the world's weather all the time...
...most accurate weather vane of the winds of contemporary U.S. art is the annual show at Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art. "We try to spread a wide net," says Director Lloyd Goodrich, 66. He and his three top staffers traveled all over the U.S. during the past year, poking into galleries and collections to catch the best...