Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon seems to be luring the up-and-coming Southern cities away from Kennedy. Most of the big, pivotal states where the election will be decided are still no cinches (see box next page). Barring an unforeseen crisis at home or abroad, or a dramatic change in the political weather, the 1960 political campaign should go down to the line as the closest, most hair-raising race since 1916 though in the end the electoral margin may be wide...
Eventually the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization, which pools the weather services of 102 member states and territories, will establish a similar network in the Southern Hemisphere. Reports will be broadcast twice each day, so anyone with the proper receiving equipment can tune in on the weather in all parts of the world...
Member states of the United Nations seem more willing to work smoothly together in science than in politics. This week the first phase of a U.N. global weather information service went into operation. Its four communication centers are at New York, Frankfurt, New Delhi-and Moscow. They are connected by radio or land-line teletypewriter circuits, and their job is to gather weather data from their areas of responsibility and pass it along to the others, either direct or by relay. In the spring of 1961 a Tokyo center will start work, completing the five-station chain around the Northern...
...plans to spend $1,800,000 on a duplicate instrument-landing system at McMurdo Sound. The present system works well enough, but if electronic gremlins were to put it out of action in foul weather, airplanes heading in from New Zealand would be in a bad way with no place to land and no possibility of getting back to their starting point. "It's expensive," says Admiral Tyree of the duplication, "but what's money against lives...
...unseasonably hot weather and Cornell's blistering early pace contributed to the varsity's downfall. Most of the Crimson performers, with the exception of Mullin, hung back until it was too late to challenge the fleeting Ithacans...