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...entire ceremony will be held in the Tercentenary Theatre, rain or shine. Last year was the first time in memory that it has rained during a Harvard Commencement. In case the weatherman should once again break the sacred tradition of a sunny Commencement, the proceedings will be broadcast live over WGBH-TV. For rain use all of the Harvard Houses and graduate schools have television sets for viewing the ceremonies...
...Women's Ivy League Swimming and Basketball Championships were contested this winter at Harvard, the athletic competition featured more than just the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. Whoever scheduled the tournaments for the second weekend of February, you see, apparently didn't check in with the weatherman beforehand. As a result, coming as they did the weekend after The Storm, the championships also introduced a new element to sporting competition, the torture of traveling...
Next to putting the cat out and kissing the wife goodnight, the most common late-evening ritual for many Americans is tuning in the TV weather forecast. Just about every TV station in the nation has its own weatherman nowadays, but the trouble with a great number of them is that they are cloudy and mostly windy...
...regular weather bulletins, predicting the bird movements around the clock and rating their intensity numerically from zero (for clear air) to eight (for a dense flock). The forecasts proved to be 83% accurate during the spring tests, about 70% in the fall-percentages that would make any conventional weatherman justifiably proud. They so impressed the local R.C.A.F. flight commander that he agreed to call off night training flights if the bird intensity reached a rating...
...scene is not science fiction. Storm-spotting sensors and the micrometeorological predictions of an orbiting weatherman are well within the reach of today's technology, giving man for the first time in his history the tools at least to tame, if not to conquer, the weather. Weather research has experienced a breakthrough in the past few years, and scientists around the world are rushing to take advantage of what the National Academy of Sciences calls "this new and enormous power to influence the conditions of human life." This year alone the U.S. Government has published some 1,700 pages...