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...dramatic feat stirred up a flurry of premature rainmaking. Barnstorming pilots took off with dry ice to knock down fleecy clouds. They did not knock down much rain. For one thing, they often picked on the wrong clouds, e.g., the stratiform (layerlike) clouds, which unless very thick do not contain enough moisture to matter. And they were inclined to overdo, choking the clouds with too much dry ice. A piece of dry ice falling through a supercooled cloud creates enormous numbers of ice nuclei. Too many falling pieces of dry ice create too many nuclei; they compete fiercely...
Last April the twelve North Atlantic Allies were congratulating themselves on plans to build up between 30 and 40 divisions by 1955. Actually, that blueprint was as inadequate as the Italians' humanitarian rifles. In the view of top military men in Washington, to contain a Russian offensive Western Europe needs an integrated army of 50 to 70 well-equipped, well-led divisions, backed up by a husky tactical air force-and it needs them a lot sooner than 1955. Two weeks ago the U.S. asked the countries of Western Europe what they proposed to do about it. By this...
After spurning repeated offers to film his life, the Philadelphia Athletics' Owner-Manager Connie Mack, 87, finally let Hollywood start work on his biography. Said he: "The picture, as I understand it, will not be based wholly on baseball, but will also contain incidents of interest to women and children...
...lined testing chambers, in which jet engines will roar full blast in a gas-swirled inferno, were reminded of a classic Pratt & Whitney story. A wartime visitor to the plant, watching blue flames flickering from an engine's exhaust, remarked brightly: "Actually, you people simply are trying to contain and control fire, aren't you?" Replied a Pratt & Whitney veteran: "Yes, and that's simply all the devil has to do in hell, too, as I understand...
...climate, too, grows milder and comes to resemble that of southern Virginia. In both North and South Korea, rainfall is almost entirely confined to July and August. The heavy concentration of rainfall is welcomed in the wide, southern valleys, which contain three times as much rice paddy land as the North, and where two crops a year of rice, barley, wheat or rye are harvested. Heart of the South is Seoul, which lies among granite hills overlooking the lordly Han River. The Japanese built wide avenues and modern buildings in Seoul's westernized center, but most of the city...