Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only four days behind schedule, spring arrived yesterday. It brought the sort of weather that, had we been studying all year, would have made us stop yesterday...
...Navy, turning to a new use of helicopters, is equipping each of its 250-odd destroyers with two unmanned, remote-controlled choppers to attack submarines. Developed by Long Island's Gyrodyne Co. of America, Inc., the 1,600-lb., all-weather, buglike aircraft can lift off a destroyer, reach sonar-detected subs as far as 15 miles away, unleash two homing torpedoes and land back on the ship-all at the electronic command of shipboard officers. Called DASH (Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter), the system is designed to strike submarines before they get within torpedo range of the destroyers...
...great body of important Early American stone sculpture is in danger of annihilation. Weather, children, riflemen and clumsy power mowers are rapidly wreaking havoc on the ancient tombstones that stand row on row in cemeteries all over New England and the South. But with the help of a Ford Foundation grant, two young artists, Ann Parker and Avon Neal, have been haunting graveyards since 1961, preserving the crumbling heritage in a less vulnerable form. Last week a show of 120 of their meticulous gravestone rubbings (see opposite page) opened at the Brooklyn Museum...
...addition, it hopes to encourage one superior graduate program, rather than many inferior ones, in a field where costs are high. Cooperative research is already in progress in bioclimatology (the study of weather's school to explore adequately. Special studies are also under way in geology, oceanography, and the classics, effects on living organisms), a field too costly...
...prides itself on opportunity for all, the persistently high U.S. unemployment rate is an acute embarrassment. Last week the Labor Department announced that 6.1% of the work force was out of work in February, the highest number in 15 months. Some economists blamed the increased unemployment on bad weather, noting that the biggest drops were in the weather-sensitive construction, farming and durable-goods industries. Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, echoing a familiar New Frontier theme, blamed the trouble on something more basic. "Our economy today is simply not expanding fast enough," he said. "It must...