Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...joint Vietnamese-U.S. strike aborted because of bad weather, was carried out the next day. Two dozen prop-driven Vietnamese Skyraiders and an unspecified number of U.S. jets from the big Danang airbase 375 miles north of Saigon plastered a major guerrilla staging and communications center at Vinhlinh, five miles north of the 17th parallel. Leading the Vietnamese wave was South Viet Nam's Vice Air Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, resplendent in a white crash helmet streaked with orange, a violet scarf and a black flying suit. Ky's plane took four hits, and he himself...
Beneath starlit skies in perfect flying weather, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 poised for takeoff at New York's Kennedy Airport. Aboard the four-motor DC-7B-a piston-driven model that Eastern is phasing out-were 79 passengers and a crew of five. Airport, control-tower operators routinely told the New York Air Route Traffic Control Center on Long Island that Flight 663 was about to execute a "Dutch Seven Departure," a takeoff pattern designed to avoid New York City by making a series of turns over the Atlantic before the plane headed toward Richmond and points south...
...rush? Certainly not the advertising; the government itself spent a scant $107,000 last year to push tourism, though the airlines and hotels upped the total considerably. First of all, it is the climate. "This is the place with the weather Miami advertises," cracks the Director of Tourism. Then there are those fast jets with their low, low air fares ($104 round trip, economy class), and the idea of having a Latin adventure not too far from home without worrying about visas-or rocks and riots. "You get a little of the Latin influence," said a blonde from Rhode Island...
...Washington. The panel sat up until just before dawn to hear their views, then gave both sides one hour to take or leave its proposals: a return to work, followed by mediation and arbitration for the West Gulf; 16-man minimum gangs and two hours' pay when weather prevents work for the South Atlantic. The President endorsed the terms and the employers accepted them, but the union turned them down. Negotiations will resume this week...
What could be alluring enough to oust 210 Harvard undergraduates out of bed at 9 a.m. to wait in line in front of the Athletic Office for as much as an hour and a half in freezing weather? Intellectual curiosity? Beer? Pot? The Harvard basketball team...