Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blind flying. By sticking tightly to proper headings, noting elapsed time and speed, the pilots should have no trouble hitting West Berlin. Once there, haze-piercing, coded ground lights could direct them into Tegel with no complex letdown pattern. Tunner's key to a successful lift in bad weather: discipline must be rigid; the pilot can have almost no discretion...
When tough, tiny (5 ft. 5 in., 110 lbs.) Chen Cheng, the Vice President and Premier of Nationalist China, flew into Washington's MATS terminal one day last week, the capital simmered in tropical 90° heat. But more than the weather had Chen warm under the collar. After years of concord, relations between the U.S. and her stanchest Pacific ally seemed to be falling into disturbing disarray...
Meteorologists need to know about weather conditions in the most inaccessible parts of the earth, but in many such places manned stations are almost impossible to maintain. The U.S. Weather Bureau and the Atomic Energy Commission now propose an automatic weather station that gets all the electricity and heat it needs from strontium 90, a long-lived radioisotope...
With the help of the Canadian Department of Transport, the automatic weather station will be placed this month on uninhabited Graham Island in the Canadian Arctic. It is expected to work unattended for at least two years, transmitting by radio every three hours the temperature, barometric pressure, wind direction and velocity at its bleak location. Should a polar bear or an arctic fox come sniffing around, it will not be damaged by radiation. The magic fire will be underground and shielded from the world by three-quarters of a ton of lead...
...view of this, it is odd that in the most personal of all art forms, the private letter, Whitman should be rather closemouthed. He disdained "top-loftical" correspondence and "fancy words," so that there is a good deal of all-too-plain prose about the Washington weather, small sums of money, and "good grub" at his boardinghouse. The reason for his reticence seems to be that when the poet's private emotions were most powerfully involved, convention made him rein in his rhetoric. The plain fact is that a great number of the letters written by the old buckaroo...