Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...race was a six-day nightmare of groping through fog, hunting for the flicker of a breeze, and battling howling gales of 60 knots that heeled over the big ocean racers, ripped sails, snapped rudders, and forced sailors to lash themselves to their craft. But fair weather or foul, the short, stubby yawl out of Annapolis was the master of the Atlantic, clipping off miles with the regularity of an ocean liner. When the fleet of 135 boats finished the 635-mile thrash from Newport to Bermuda last week, the overall winner, for an unprecedented third straight time, was Finisterre...
...Quarter Mile. The Transit satellite, the second of its series to go into or bit, is a long step toward perfecting the Navy's all-weather navigation system, scheduled for fully effective operation in 1962, which will benefit all nations on earth. The Transit navigation system is built on the fact that radio waves received from a satellite change their frequency as the satellite passes a ship or ground station. From that change, the instant when the satellite is closest can easily be determined. And since the satellite's orbit can be calculated far in advance, the almost...
...lady in sable. I go up to her and say, 'You look as though you've got money to spare. I'm Minnie Guggenheimer and I need it.' " Smelling Rain. The success or failure of a stadium season depends as much on the weather as it does on donations. Minnie has the sole responsibility for canceling a concert (at a loss of as much as $30,000) in case of rain, and the responsibility weighs heavily on her. Once, so the story goes, after she had decided to gamble on a concert against the advice...
...Milanese even defend their weather-last year Milan had 200 days of rain, hail, snow, sleet, fog and overcast. They assure visitors: "It's the kind of climate that keeps you moving. In Rome, all you feel like doing is looking out the window." A Milanese is always going somewhere: to his job, or to one of the cafes and bars in the glass-domed Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, or to Italy's largest railway station to board the express to Rome, or to a business appointment in the slim, 33-story Pirelli Building, which is Western Europe...
Last week Minnie found herself $30,000 in the red for 1960. On top of that, she feared that one of her favorite weather prognosticators, a double bass player named Carlos Raviola, known to Minnie as "Mr. Spaghetti," would at any moment begin "smelling rain." Minnie concluded that she had about had it. She would give up the whole business, she told a visitor, the day after the stadium celebrated its 50th anniversary...