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Almost no one east of the Rockies needs to be told that summer 1958 has been a season of abnormal rain, overcast skies and generally cooler temperatures, but last week meteorologists were ready to fix the blame. Principal culprit: the band of planetary winds that flow eastward across the North American continent at 10,000 to 40,000 ft. The planetary winds ordinarily stay far north in summer, allowing warm air to flow up freely from the South. But this summer, for reasons unknown, the winds have veered far southward into the U.S. middle, dragging with them cold northern...
Rather than dealing with the problem itself, Walker said, "everyone is busy trying to fix the responsibility for its solution on someone else." And while the nation has demonstrated its willingness to protect itself from military aggression, it has not shown a desire to protect itself from "ideoligical aggression...
...topknotted samurai disarmed his opponent after some ferocious swordplay. The cowering loser awaited the death thrust; instead, the victor tossed him a bottle of tranquilizer pills, shouted the manufacturer's name and advised: "If you took these regularly, you wouldn't get into such a fix...
...with the whole stage and its inhabitants bathed in garlands, is a delight to the eye. Marc Blitzstein has composed rather modern music--appropriately dissonant or consonant as the situation warrants. The backstage instrumentalists are not yet wholly at ease in their parts, but a few more performances will fix that...
...Held a state luncheon for visiting Sardar Mohammed Daoud, fierce-eyed, austere Prime Minister of neutral Afghanistan, while the U.S. firmed up plans to give Afghanistan $26 million more in aid. The money will be used to fix the roads so that the U.S.S.R.'s landlocked southern neighbor can ship its Persian lamb pelts to free-world markets...