Word: hydrologists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gleaming Light with Larry Adams went to the lead with Hydrologist and Angel Cordero, Jr. a half-length behind on the outside. Three lengths behind that pair raced Distray and John L. Rotz on the rail with Arts And Letters and Braulio Baeza a neck away on the outside. Dike and Jorge Velasquez trailed these by five lengths, as always. After six furlongs and with a half-mile to go Arts And Letters and Dike began stalking the leaders...
Gleaming Light is on the rail a half-length off the pace, and Larry Adams still has a little horse under him. The reins are slightly taut. Hydrologist is next, on the lead, and Cordero has set his horse down for a strong hand ride, the reins loose. Distray, a length off the leader, is being asked for some run by Rotz. Fourth from the rail is Art And Letters, Baeza up, two lengths from the leader and moving fastest of all. Braulio is not pushing his mount. The horse is running on its own courage, still fresh. But, notice...
Finally, strapped by a hard-pressed economy, Indonesia has taken the plight of Borobudur to the United Nations, arguing that a "monument to all mankind" is at stake. After a searching survey, UNESCO's Bernard Groslier, conservator of Angkor Wat, and Dutch Hydrologist Caesar Voute have now agreed, and next month will recommend a $3,000,000, seven-year restoration program. Indonesians see prompt UNESCO aid as their only hope. "The balance now is precarious," warns one Indonesian archaeologist. "The walls of Borobudur could fall down today, and they could fall down in 20 years...
...catalogue is immense. But for all his works and all his study, man's understanding of water remains curiously limited. "Considering the forces that man is trying to affect," says Dr. Raymond L. Nace, a U.S. Government hydrologist, "we can say that he has scarcely made a dent." But scientists keep trying. Attempts at weather control, for example, have been as unsuccessful and unreliable as appeals to the rain gods of old, yet researchers continue to seed clouds with silver iodide and Dry Ice, hopeful that they may some day learn to manage what they cannot yet predict...
...engineers and scientists of the International Hydrological Decade expand man's knowledge of water, man will have to face up to critical decisions. And in the U.S., at least, the questions are not so much technical as they are problems of economics and management. "After the hydrologist states the problem," says Dr. Nace, who proposed the idea of the 1HD and became the chief U.S. representative of the Decade, "the policymakers must solve it." Thus, the great problem is people. "How many of them know what water is about?" asks William E. Warne, director of the California Department...