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...Weatherman Gromyko, whose head pops out when storms impend, just as Jacob Malik sometimes emerges to indicate clearing skies, might thunder against the Japanese treaty but he could not prevent it. The State Department had drafted a tough set of procedural rules which forbid amendments, limit each delegation to one hour's formal comment, rule out debate on points of order. But these rules must be adopted formally by the conference itself, which may give Gromyko a chance to get in his propaganda licks first. His audience will be vast: the treaty sessions in San Francisco's Opera...
...taken a three-months course in meteorology in the Army and got the job. By last week the job had grown to two local weather shows, a 45-second spot twice a week on John Cameron Swayze's network telecast (TIME, June u), and had boosted Weatherman Youle's salary to $40,000 a year...
...Arizona last week, Phoenix Weatherman J. R. Jurwitz asked, "Why can't God give us some of that Missouri water?" Residents looked up at smoke-hazed skies and prayed for rain. Drought is now in its tenth year of creeping paralysis. Forest fires burned 26,450 Arizona acres in June and are roaring on. (New Mexico, Washington, Oregon and California also had drought-born forest fires.) "It's so dry, a hot breath could start a fire," said one ranger...
...weather of the two weeks preceding the June 23 event had been about as perfect as anyone could ask. Even the famed English fogs and mists barely showed. Yet the weatherman chose to doublecross the meet directors, causing the expected shirt sleeves to be replaced by top coats as spectator apparel as the mercury dropped...
...Weatherman Christie deprecated the role of Howell's silver iodide spray in the downpour by pointing out that light rain had started in the test area before the experiment began, and that the heaviest rainfall had been to the south--not to the north, where the chemical clouds had drifted...