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...summit, carry the promise of an enchanted spring of peace. But a remarkable number of show-me skeptics, foreign and domestic, are worried that the thaw may put the U.S. on even thinner ice in a cold war that has yet to end. Last week three experienced diplomatic weathermen contributed to a growing debate on the subject. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter pledged the Eisenhower Administration to careful negotiation and something called "co-survival." President Truman's Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, warned against the perils of negotiation. And Mr. Cold War himself, Nikita Khrushchev, proclaimed that...
Meteorologist Banner Miller of the National Hurricane Center at Miami is certain that this fatal underestimation will not be repeated. Today's weathermen know that the strength of a hurricane depends on the temperature of the sea water, the temperature of the air up to 50,000 ft., the strength of inflowing winds at low levels and dozens of other factors, and that all the factors can be measured. The only problem is getting the information rapidly and accurately...
...under test is a big, inflated sphere that will ride the surface ocean waves in the eye, broadcasting similar information at sea level. Still a third promising device: a camera-carrying rocket that flies high enough to bring down pictures of an entire hurricane, several hundred miles across, give weathermen their first complete look at a big blow...
...Butler once sponsored a nightly weather roundup as a campaign gimmick), puppets, and above all, dolls. As one of the largest sponsors of TV weather programs (36 on local stations in the East), the Atlantic Refining Co. has tried its share of stunts. But last week it took its weathermen on a junket to Florida, treated them to a lecture from weather bureau experts, gave them some charts and textbooks for homework, and ordered them, from now on, to tell their story straight...
...cold wave hurt most in Florida, frost-singed nearly to its tip. Since December, southern Florida has had six freezes (three more than in any year since records began some 90 years ago), and weathermen are marking this as the state's worst winter...