Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trip may have seemed as long and arduous as any expedition of Vasco da Gama, but the last leg of Portugal's journey from dictatorship to democracy was smooth sailing. Braving oppressively hot 90° weather, some 5 million Portuguese went calmly to the polls last week and, by an overwhelming margin, chose General António Ramalho Eanes (TIME, June 21) as their first democratically elected President in 50 years...
...unhappy people were not the only sufferers. In the Cologne Zoo, three South American llamas collapsed from heat prostration at about the same time; one later died. So did a sunstruck boa constrictor in England's Dudley Zoo, where special sunshades were set up to help the penguins weather the continuing heat wave...
...rock audience. Bassist Stanley Clarke, 25, trained in the classics, combines breathtaking technical acrobatics with Coltrane-style solos. British-born John McLaughlin, 34, plays America's most supercharged guitar, pouring out majestic chords at breakneck tempos in a hybrid concoction of hard rock, Indian music and 32-bar blues. Weather Report, a five-man combo, mixes improvisitory jazz techniques with rhythmically powerful rock, and comes out sounding like a 120-piece orchestra. Hancock, 36, who once played a lyrical jazz piano, turned funky and three years ago issued a jazz-rock LP, Head Hunters, that has since sold more than...
...photoanalysis team-suggested that had a Martian version of Mariner 4 passed within 6,000 miles of earth and taken 22 comparable photographs, it would have uncovered no sign of life (TIME, Jan. 7, 1966). In fact, he noted, in studying hundreds of photographs taken by Nimbus and Tiros weather satellites orbiting only several hundred miles above the earth, he had failed to detect anything that could reasonably be interpreted as evidence of life below. The continuing confidence of Sagan and other life-on-Mars enthusiasts was bolstered in 1971 and '72 when Mariner 9, from an orbit that...
...more likely exists in the form of tiny, hardy organisms too small for Viking's cameras to perceive. It is these life forms that Viking's ingenious biology laboratory is designed to seek out. Eight days after the landing-an interval during which Viking will monitor Martian weather and seismology and shoot the mission's first color pictures-the ingeniously conceived and packaged laboratory (which occupies about a cubic foot of space) will begin operating. The surface sampler, a power-shovel-like bucket, will be extended from Viking by a boom that can reach...