Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That still does not explain why the planes crash in the first place. Although the F-111 was designed as an all-weather craft, some flyers speculate that dense rain squalls in Viet Nam somehow foil the plane's complex TFR (terrain-following radar), which permits it to skim treetops at 200 ft. above ground at speeds of more than 500 m.p.h. Others suggest that the dense tropical humidity in Southeast Asia somehow damages its complex electronic circuits governing flight and navigational controls. But no one really knows for sure. After returning from an F-111 mission over Laos...
...issue relatively new to TV labor negotiations: automation. Although CBS claims that no jobs are in jeopardy, union leaders contend that a number of electronic breakthroughs have encouraged CBS to reduce IBEW jurisdiction over new equipment. The Telestrator, for example, transforms freehand drawings into TV images, thus enabling news, weather and sports broadcasters to supplement existing graphics with instant doodles of their own. IBEW is willing to allow freehand lettering by performers with artistic ability but not by amateurs; CBS wants to allow newsmen to wield a Telestrator pen on camera...
...ARPA's major concerns has been Project Blue Nile, the defense program of weather modification as a military weapon. It is intended to put storm clouds, turbulences and tropical cyclones to useful tactical purposes...
...there is no shortage of icons for sale. Many churches, closed during antireligious drives, were simply abandoned to the mercies of weather and thieves. Some icon dealers-one of them is known as "Sasha the Psycho" because his hands shake nervously when he calls on his customers late at night-simply pillage empty or unguarded churches. Others tour the countryside in search of icons, claiming to be museum officials or priests. Many Muscovites seem to feel that the icon racketeers unwittingly perform a service for Russia. Since the state has been negligent in preserving a heritage, the argument goes...
...great. Baron Philippe de Rothschild, millionaire oenophile and vintner (Château Mouton Rothschild), says: "To develop character, great wines must go through hardship. Snow. Drought. Storms. There must be suffering to produce it. In California everything is much too perfect. The soil is too rich. The weather is too good. The wine all comes out industrially uniform, like Coca-Cola." In 1966, the Paris chain store Prisunic put three lines of California wines on sale. Some 60,000 bottles gathered dust and derision for several months before being shipped to the provinces, where they bombed again. Only one French...