Word: clouding
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...rundown of these five key contests and three others of special interest: OHIO. In assessing his party's nominee for Governor, an Ohio Republican recently referred to Roger Cloud as "a nice guy, but when he walks into a room, nothing happens." Cloud has walked into a political race where nothing good, from his standpoint, will happen either. Fallout from a state-loan scandal has crippled State Auditor Cloud and the rest of the G.O.P. ticket. At the campaign's outset, Cloud unsuccessfully demanded that two of his running mates, who had accepted political contributions from borrowers...
Thriving on Smog. How could minute plants live in a cloud? Many of them, Parker decided, are large enough to act as nuclei for slowly condensing droplets of water-an essential ingredient for all earthly life. The tiny organisms also have an amazingly varied diet available even in unpolluted clouds: oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, ammonium, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, butane and acetone. Such necessary minerals as potassium, phosphorus, calcium, iron and magnesium could be transported to the clouds in airborne soil and dust particles...
...incident showed the animosity that surrounds the strike like a cloud of smog. The stoppage is now in its sixth week, and both sides agree that local issues must be settled before work can resume. As of last week only about 25% of some 39,000 local demands had been resolved, and they were the least difficult ones. An optimist in Detroit nowadays is someone who still expects the G.M. workers to return well before Christmas; the pessimists predict that the walkout will last until early next year...
Vodka Glass. How could so skilled a chemist have allowed sweat to contaminate his equipment? The explanation is simple, says Purdue University Chemist Robert Davis, who collaborated with Rousseau and confirmed his conclusions with other analytic techniques. Every person is surrounded by an invisible cloud of organic salts that have evaporated from the skin and been expelled from the lungs; these tiny pollutants may well be absorbed by the porous glass of laboratory beakers and flasks. Thus polywater-which is made by letting steam condense inside hair-thin glass tubes-could pick up impurities even in the hands...
...serious drinkers prefer their soda pop cold in the mouth, but not ice cold." He advises devotees to avoid smoking while sampling, but admits that a mellow root beer enhances the flavor of a good cigar. "To see the delicacy of a light, joyous celery tonic smothered by a cloud of gray smoke," Shorris laments, "is depressing to even the most casual connoisseur...