Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that seemed academic once Eagle started racing. Aiming for an all-weather boat, Designer Luders had purposely given Eagle a low center of gravity to make her point higher in high winds, a shortened keel to lessen drag in light air. In gusty, 15-knot breezes, she stood straight as a shark's fin; and she ghosted gently through pockets of virtual calm, finding momentum where none seemed possible. In all of the seven races, Skipper Cox outmaneuvered his rivals at the start, pouring backwind into their sails and slipping out in front. And when it came to tacking...
Everybody Knows. Following standard procedure, Ray and his seven companions, including a woman radio operator, were launched from a CIA-sponsored "mother ship" that obligingly runs exiles to within striking distance of Cuba. As Ray and his men later told it to TIME Correspondent Ed Reingold, the weather was terrible the first few days, and Cuban patrol boats were everywhere. "Big, fast boats," recalled one of the infiltrators. "We saw ten in all." So the small band zoomed around tiny keys that lie between Florida and Cuba, testing their 24-ft. catamaran and tinkering with their boat...
Sitting in his still-preserved invasion room at Southwick House near Portsmouth, he said that the D-day he had picked was June 5, but "it wasn't in the cards. You couldn't go. The weather was terrible. This house was shaking...
Eisenhower recalled the "little grin" on the meteorologist's face when he came in announcing a break for June 6. "It was the best of a bad bargain," Ike told Cronkite. "He predicted this good weather would last between 24 and 36 hours, but I said, 'O.K., we'll go,' and this room was emptied in two seconds...
Finally, the President said that the United States will move ahead with plans to devise a world-wide weather system--using the satellite and facilities of all industrialized countries...