Word: clouding
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...which left Benghazi on the regular run to Cairo. Flying along the Mediterranean coast, the plane turned south at El Alamein, then northeast at El Fayoum for the approach to Cairo. Inexplicably, Captain Bourges missed Cairo by a wide margin; the only reasonable explanation for his error was heavy cloud conditions over the area that afternoon that might have affected his navigational equipment...
...inefficient" way of doing what cloud-seeding does well...
...Jesse is not only a public nuisance but a threat to the campaign. Jesse's real interest lies in consorting with a group of benign crazies (Peter Boyle, Garry Goodrow and John Savage) in a plot to get a behemoth airship off the ground. Destination: some political Cloud Cuckoo-land where there are no hassles, no jails, no discrimination...
...briefly in Hong Kong, Kissinger will spend four days in equally delicate discussions in Peking. These talks, too, will be important in providing a new spirit for the relationship begun by President Nixon, Kissinger and China's Premier Chou En-lai last year. The Viet Nam War always cloud ed those earlier meetings and Washing ton is anxious to see what new progress can be made now that the war is ending. One topic likely to be discussed is the amount of military aid that China intends to give Hanoi; Nixon has appealed for "restraint" by both China...
Fuller chose two years of silence, study and contemplation instead. "From his silence," says Kenner, "he emerged talking of everything at once, and was barely intelligible." His first book, Time-lock, a chain reaction of nascent Fullerese, was "like a cloud of gas just condensing into a galaxy...