Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Berlin was no longer the sole danger point. In Washington's "Crisis Center," State Department intelligence experts kept a weather eye on the rain in Laos, where the monsoon-and perhaps an uneasy truce-will end later this month. From the stalled peace talks in Geneva, roving Ambassador Averell Harriman flew to Southeast Asia in an all-but-hopeless effort to establish accord with Sovietsupported Prince Souvanna Phouma, Laos' prospective Premier...
...where nine policemen were hurt attempting to control the crowd that turned out for an annual West Indies Day parade in Harlem-the nerve-shreddingly humid heat was mostly to blame for trouble. But not all the rebellion could be explained away by back-to-books excesses or hot weather. The U.S. juvenile delinquency rate was up 6% last year over 1959, has more than doubled over the last twelve years. In Houston, where there has been little juvenile delinquency in recent years, police report a 30% increase in teen-ager arrests this summer. In San Francisco, recorded illegitimate teen...
Career's End. De Sapio's forebodings were well taken. Election Day was pleasantly mild-just the sort of weather to attract voters-and colorless Candidate Levitt's chances rested on a small turnout, in which his organization support might be decisive. More than 743,000 voters, a record for a Democratic primary in New York City, swarmed to the polls. They swamped the organization: Charley Buckley's once-mighty Bronx machine was able to muster only 46,000 Levitt votes against 75,000 for Wagner; in Joe Sharkey's Brooklyn, Levitt...
Peking's Communist government blames it all on the weather. But in a recent study, Hong Kong University Economist E. Stuart Kirby points out that Hong Kong, Formosa and Red China's Kwangtung province all get more or less the same weather. And the weather has unquestionably been bad. But while Hong Kong's crops are off only 8%, and Formosan output is down 13%, Kwangtung's yield has fallen 30%. His conclusion: Red China's problem is not just weather, but a wide demoralization of the peasantry...
...murderer, comets signified disaster-although Galileo was calmly regarding the heavens through a telescope that magnified 1,000 times. Witchcraft (in which Kepler believed) was widespread: the Archbishop of Trier found it necessary to burn 120 of his fellow Germans on the ground that they had prolonged the cold weather long past the change of seasons. And yet the voice that defined the age and spoke one of its most famous lines belongs to a rationalist: "I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends,'' wrote Francis Bacon to Lord William Cecil...