Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...come to produce its phony "cover story" about a weather flight that had unwittingly strayed over Soviet territory because of an apparent oxygen failure...
...Aeronautics and Space Administration, but had no detailed information. After Khrushchev's first announcement that Russia had shot down the U2, reporters bombarded Dryden for the story. He called CIA, got the dusted-off cover story, and put together the statement that the plane was lost on a weather flight. "I was told that these statements had been cleared by CIA with the State Department. I did not independently check that fact." What nobody had bothered to tell Dryden was that President Eisenhower and his aides had earlier decided that the State Department would handle all the "publicity...
...good swimmer. Later on I asked Esther about Rita, and she said Rita is a good dancer . . . Curt Jurgens had a simple party at Cap Ferrat-twelve guests, the butler, the chauffeur, the cook, the secretary, one monkey, five parrots, and two dogs . . . Elsa Maxwell, looking like a weather-beaten hill, stood in the lobby of the Excelsior under a big straw hat which made it hard to tell what was front and what was back...
Building now seems to be quickening. The upswing started in late April and, thanks to a steady easing in the money market (see above) and better weather, is expected to hold solid and steady for the rest of 1960. Government housing experts expect 1960 to be a 1,300,000-plus housing-start year, based on the new census figures, rather than the 1,200,000 year earlier expected...
...rest of Idlewild's buildings, Pan American's is designed to speed and pamper the often delayed and neglected air passenger. Instead of wrestling with swinging doors, the passenger enters the building through an 89-ft.-wide opening, which has an air curtain to keep out the weather. He puts his luggage on a conveyor, which speeds it on and off the scales, scoots it to the baggage area. Six 12-ft. electronic boards flash the latest flight information...