Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elected lieutenant governor in 1959, Johnson used the succeeding four years to build an image as a hard-nosed segregationist second to none. On a rainy morning last September, when weather kept Governor Ross Barnett from flying to the University of Mississippi to prevent Negro James Meredith from enrolling, Johnson basked in a few moments of ugly glory, bumping bellies with U.S. marshals...
Bombing Esther. After the wide spread hurricane havoc of 1954 and 1955, the U.S. Weather Bureau began an intensive program aimed at learning how to slow a hurricane down and make it change course. Observations from air planes and balloons showed large quantities of supercooled water high above each hurricane's heat chimney - the rising column of moist, warm, low-pressure air near the storm's calm eye. Meteorologists speculated that if this water could be turned to ice, the energy released in the process might change the chimney's pressure enough to calm the raging winds...
...Weather Bureau sent a strike force of airplanes on a "bombing" mission aimed at Hurricane Esther's heat chimney. Into the chimney they dropped eight finned, 130 lb. bombs which spewed a cloud of minute silver iodide particles as they fell. The crystals acted like small ice "seeds," and supercooled droplets of water instantly froze around them. Instant icing released the latent heat of fusion, equivalent to the energy of eight 20-kiloton atomic bombs. In one hour, radar showed that a 160° segment of the chimney had been knocked out. Maximum wind speeds dropped by as much...
When the downpour ended, the local Weather Bureau announced that nine inches of rain had fallen-an alltime 24-hour record for Tulsa...
...presumably only a coincidence that last week, a few days after the Tulsa deluge, President Kennedy announced a change of command at the Weather Bureau. Francis W. Reichelderfer, 68, a Franklin Roosevelt appointee who has headed the bureau for a quarter of a century, is about to retire. His successor: Robert M. White, president of the Travelers Research Center, which does research in meteorology and other fields for Connecticut's Travelers Insurance Co. White is the very model of a New Frontier weatherman: a Bostonian by origin, a Harvardman, and only 40. He has never been in Tulsa...