Word: patching
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Until Tiros, the story of what happens overhead had been a matter of educated guesswork, a smattering of facts well-larded with interpolation. Only a few areas (Europe, parts of the U.S., Japan) have tight networks of weather observation posts, and even these can only monitor a relatively small patch of weather. A ground observer can see cloud effects about five miles away. If he has radar, he can report heavy rain at a somewhat greater distance; even aircraft at 45,000 ft. can see only 150 miles. Between the observers are wide-open spaces big enough to hold whole...
...such farmer is wiry, half-naked Jagjit, sixtyish, whose 20 acres of Punjab sugar cane, wheat and pulses brought him a cash income of $485 last year. For weeks Jagjit worked night and day carrying buckets to save his half-acre patch of cane from the searing Indian sun; last week the violent onset of monsoon rains threatened to wash away his fields. Jagjit cannot afford to buy chemical fertilizer. He uses cow dung to manure his fields, but only during the monsoon, when the dung cannot be dried; the rest of the time he collects it in great mounds...
...March for Causes. For better or for worse, Suburbia in the 1960s is the U.S.'s grassroots. In Suburbia live one-third of the nation, roughly 60 million people who represent every patch of democracy's hand-stitched quilt, every economic layer, every laboring and professional pursuit in the country. Suburbia is the nation's broadening young middle class, staking out its claim across the landscape, prospecting on a trial-and-error basis for the good way of life for itself and for the children that it produces with such rapidity. It is, as Social Scientist...
...expeditions, and he can exist for months at a stretch in the Sierra. His towering pack makes him self-sufficient. Not only does it contain such essentials as dehydrated food and a three-quarter ax, but also shoe nails and a cobbler's hammer, material to patch his pants, cameras, prepared breading mix for frying fish, and, to while away the twilight hours, copies of such classics as Cervantes in Spanish and Moliere in French. Says a Sierra guide: "We call him the pack that walks like...
Under a searing sun, India's peasant plods endlessly behind his scrawny bullocks, scratching at the badly irrigated soil with tools of a thousand years ago. Most of his cow's dung cannot be used as fertilizer, for it is needed as fuel; his patch of land is tiny, and his life is mortgaged to the local moneylender or landlord. He has a deep distrust of foreigners' slick schemes for greater yields; yet the fate of all of India's 415 million depends on the stubborn peasant's ability to expand production. Six years from...