Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...edge of a stool and faced 50 newsmen. In a precisely timed half-hour, they asked 39 questions ranging across U.S. policy from the Communist threat in Cuba (see HEMISPHERE) to highly technical details of East-West nuclear test-ban negotiations in Geneva, to the likely impact of U.S. weather satellite Tiros 1 on the legal status of outer space. To each question, Herter replied in measured, carefully framed sentences, without benefit of prepared statement...
Buoyed up by the approach of Easter and an easing of the nation's worst weather in years, retail sales are riding high across the U.S. Department store sales for the last week reported were 22% above the corresponding week a year ago. Adjusted to fit the pre-Easter sales pattern (Easter this year is three weeks later than last), the figure is still 8% above the comparable 1959 week...
Snaking Around Earth. Dr. Harry Wexler, chief of research for the U.S. Weather Bureau, explains that CAT is generally caused by wind shear, the conflict of air masses moving at different speeds or in different directions. When such masses meet, a belt of swirls and waves appears in the boundary between them. A slow airplane can fly through moderate CAT with hardly any unpleasantness, but for a fast-flying jet the sensation is like driving a car over a cobblestone pavement with some of the stones missing...
...detect it. The stream is capricious, whipping up and down and from side to side like a shaken rope. The only way at present to find belts of CAT is to fly an airplane through a region where it may be -and wait for the bumps to begin. The Weather Bureau intends to do this if it can get the money to fly its elaborately instrumented hurricane-hunter planes during hurricane-free seasons. Such a course of flying may suggest ways to warn pilots of CAT ahead...
Mindful that lots of people (some of whom probably read) take vacations in Florida at this time of year, Knopf has issued a volume of hot-weather reading...