Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weather satellite Tiros spotted it first, and the photograph drew whistles from a forecaster at the San Juan, P.R., weather station. "There it is," he said, "and it's a beaut...
...tropical Atlantic off the northeast coast of South America lay a doughnut-shaped cloud mass of warm air, gradually rising and circling in counterclockwise motion as a drop in atmospheric pressure sucked layers of cooler air in beneath it. The weather men named the mass Flora-sixth hurricane of the 1963 season-and commenced the routine precautions that in recent years have taken some of the bite out of the fierce storms: hurricane-hunter planes to check course, speed, wind velocity, intensity of the rain; detailed advisories and instructions to everyone in the storm's path...
Louder & Louder. Not surprisingly, the telephone company feels that this kind of kissing has to stop. It tends to jam up circuits when one beeper sets up a line by dialing his own number and passing the word around. Beepers who use the numbers of local radio stations or weather bureaus make service useless for large segments of the public...
...Fall River, Mass., Gene Murphy, the telephone company's business manager, finally found out what was playing hob with the service when he chanced on an item in the teenagers' column of a suburban weekly that gave the new beep number-a radio station's recorded weather-reporting service. He discovered that in one week the number of "busy" calls made to the station had jumped from 1,495 to 27,928. Murphy boosted the sound of the busy signal, but the teen-agers just shouted louder. So he had technicians do a job of special rewiring...
...somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan. But since the play is rigged for the triumph of good over evil, it is no more intellectually honest than a play that paints the world pitch black. Libel merely caters to an audience's smug self-righteousness, scarcely good growing weather for an examination of moral conscience. Playwright Denker ringingly declares for a responsible free press and due process of taw, which is about as audacious as sponsoring the Ten Commandments...