Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cities will remain relatively calm depends largely on what happens to those programs. "It's an oversimplification to think that there will not be more rioting," says CORE Chief Roy Innis. Like some other Negro leaders, he argues that warfare in the ghettos will expand from a warm-weather phenomenon to a year-round activity unless white leaders give an even higher priority to creating more jobs for blacks-and realize that slum dwellers, particularly the young, have just grievances during the long, cold winter as well...
...bulk of such operations to scheduled commercial flights. At New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, where the pressure has been greatest, the FAA intends to allow a fixed number of 80 landings and takeoffs an hour. The allocation is based on instrument conditions; if the weather is suitable and visual-landing regulations prevail, more than the 80 will be permitted. Priority will be given to commercial airlines, with a small number of reservations split between air taxis and private airplanes. At Kennedy, moreover, private planes will be banned between the peak hours...
...have had a chance to comment on them at public hearings in Washington. If preliminary reactions last week are any clue, some comments will be angry. Private flyers, in particular, are incensed by the fact that the FAA intends to bar planes from the Golden Triangle pattern in bad weather unless they have a second pilot, can maintain an airspeed of 172 m.p.h. and carry electronic equipment to acknowledge radar signals of FAA controllers...
Checking the weather ought to be a basic precaution; yet the Coast Guard reports that an astonishing number of boaters pay it no heed. One day last fall, the forecast for Lake Michigan called for squalls and 40-m.p.h. winds. Nevertheless, hundreds of fishermen set out in search of coho salmon. When the storm hit, the Coast Guard did all the fishing, hauled 300 anglers and seven dead bodies from the water...
...Coast Guard finally located him, three days later, 100 miles out in the open Atlantic. That man was lucky he had a radio. So many do not-like the boatload of hippies who put to sea from Boston last year with only a homing pigeon for communication. When the weather turned bad, the hippies released the bird. Eventually they were rescued off the New Jersey coast...