Word: storms
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...sensed the change, Adlai Stevenson (who celebrates his 60th birthday this week) did nothing to counteract it. Next week he will leave for a two-month tour of Latin America-about as far away as he can get from the eye of the political storm. As he packed for his trip, he announced that he has declined an invitation to be a delegate to the Los Angeles convention in July (he will attend as an observer). "I think my district will be represented in the convention by the president of a corsetmakers' union," he said wryly. "And I might...
...advantage of the moon-relay system is that it makes possible the use of microwaves in the ultra-high frequency, 400-megacycle band that are normally unaffected by magnetic storms. Such microwaves cannot be used in normal long-range radio transmissions, since they do not bend around the curve of the earth, travel only along line-of-sight paths. When a message (Teletype, code or facsimile) is to be sent to Hawaii, an 84-ft. dish antenna at Annapolis, Md. is pointed at the moon. If the weather is overcast, the signal is aimed at the moon's calculated...
Humphrey's campaign calls for his Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party workers to storm across the state line, cover "every country crossroads." But Humphrey will concentrate his personal stemwinding in the cities, mainly Milwaukee. Reason: to win the statewide majority and thus the ten dele-gate-votes-at-large, he must cut deep into those expected Kennedy majorities (up to 25,000 in the "southside" Fourth District). None too hopeful on this score, Humphrey forces are trying instead to get the party's rules changed, cut the delegates-at-large vote to five, boost the districts...
...college education, traveled over the countryside helping his father vaccinate hogs, crammed through a six-month pharmacy course in Denver (his pharmacist's license still hangs over the counter in the Humphrey drugstore). Somehow the Humphreys and their drugstore survived. Then on Armistice Day. 1932, the first dust storm hit Huron. Humphrey was hunting pheasants at the time, remembers it vividly: "The sun was blacked out and all you could see was a little shining disk. I didn't know what it was; it looked like a terrible smoke cloud. Debris - thistles and tumbleweeds - came before the storm...
...worth $750,000. Coghlan says he found the wreck in U.S. territory last Aug. 6 in 150 ft. of water, three-fourths of a mile off the island. U.S. park rangers chased him off, says Coghlan, and he was on his way to get permission to continue when the storm swamped his barge...