Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest picture. The World, the Flesh and the Devil, to be released in April, he is co-starred with Mel Ferrer and Inger Stevens as one of the three survivors of an earth-shattering atomic disaster (the script is based roughly on a prophetic 1902 novel entitled The Purple Cloud). By all reports, despite a clumsy story it is Belafonte's best acting job to date. Writer-Director Ranald MacDougall was surprised by Belafonte's chameleon ability to take on the emotional coloration of almost any scene he was playing. At one point Belafonte was required...
Weather Scanner. Vanguard's new satellite is probably the most sophisticated bit of spaceware to leave the ground so far. Its job is to scan a broad belt around the earth, reporting on the cloud patterns that indicate the trend of the earth's weather. Ordinary meteorological methods keep accurate track of the weather over only 5% of the earth's surface. Vanguard II will raise this figure toward 25%, giving hope of understanding how worldwide weather works...
...fellow Prime Minister to the more populous but primitive north, the Sardauna of Sokoto, is a haughty Moslem nobleman out of another century. Nigeria's other regional Prime Minister, the demagogic, U.S.-educated Nnamdi ["Zik"] Azikiwe of the Ibo tribe to the east, lives under a cloud as a result of a financial scandal in his administration. So rent by divisions (250 tribes speaking 400 languages), Nigeria has a compromise federal Prime Minister, Abubakar Balewa, a northerner. "To many of us," says Awolowo, "Britain is our second home. We have thrown no stones, fired no shot, and we have...
Nationally, for the time being, the cloud ceilings for such flights were raised 600 feet and visibility requirements doubled. This was intended to give pilots more leeway in landings when they come off instruments and into open weather...
...three or four hills and a cloud...