Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until the weather stalled construction for the winter, more than 3,000 women were working on the Alaska pipeline as craftsmen, clerks, cooks. Adele Bacon, 22, for a time was an apprentice pipefitter on the line. "The men watched their language when I was around," she admitted, "so I had to watch mine." At Prudhoe Bay, petite Kathleen Gotten, 26, was a warehouse checker. Among her duties: helping to get 17,000-lb. sections of pipe moving on rollers as they were being cleaned. The women on the pipeline, although their bedrooms are sometimes side by side with...
Most of the women are in staff jobs, but the Air Force will soon begin a pilot-training program in which women will fly C-130 Hercules hospital or weather-reconnaissance planes and T-39 trainer jets. The Air Force has women in fatigues maintaining and repairing missiles, airplanes and weapons. The Army has women chaplains, helicopter pilots and tank drivers and 136 drill instructors. The Navy has anti-submarine warfare technicians, line handlers on tugboats, airplane welders, bulldozer operators and a deep-sea diver. All recruits go through rugged basic training, learning to shoot and strip rifles (just...
...base is a unique high-altitude observatory that makes possible a variety of important geophysical measurements. These include soundings of the upper atmosphere, monitoring of auroral displays ("the southern lights"), and other observations that may answer many questions about the earth's day-to-day weather and overall climate. In a new experiment, for instance, scientists from the University of California at Davis are seeking to learn precisely how the polar region-a so-called heat sink-sheds the excess energy it receives from...
...Hindenburg contains many beautiful, technically ingenious shots showing a model of the great airship sailing majestically through all sorts of weather and cloud conditions. It also contains many lovingly detailed re-creations of the craft's interior-the elegantly appointed public rooms, the bridge, the 804-ft.-long canvas hull where the volatile hydrogen that kept the thing afloat was stored...
...longer just heavy rugs, furs now come in lighter weights, often in combination with leather, with removable foul-weather covers, and in a rainbow of nonnatural colors. Some new items: a burgundy-colored opossum jacket selling briskly in Manhattan stores for $600; Designer Calvin Klein's $3,000 celery-green kimono-style mink jacket at top department stores around the country. Especially popular are inexpensive jackets priced as low as $70, made of sewn-to-gether "plates"-fragments of paws, underbellies, and other less-than-prime skins...