Fewer Weasels

Last week the new chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau, Commander Francis Wilton Reichelderfer (TIME, Dec. 26), contemplating with satisfaction his new scientific aids for weather forecasting--such as latex balloons (see col. 1) which ascend to great heights, send down upper-air data by means of automatic radio--made a promise: in the future, the Bureau's weathermen would doctor their daily forecasts less often with the weasel word "probably."

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