Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...awfully necessary for me to keep busy," says Australian-born Cyril Ritchard. one of the most resourceful actors and directors in show business. "I can't bear to be out of work. I'm stagestruck, I love variety and I cannot say no." To ward off purely imagined signs of creeping inactivity, peripatetic Actor Ritchard last week said yes to a new broadcasting venture: hosting "the best of BBC dramas" (daily at 2 p.m.) over Manhattan's city-owned, high-toned station WNYC...
...Breaking Wave) opens his 21st novel. To U.S. Commander Dwight Towers, who has brought his atom-powered submarine safely to port in Melbourne, the death in the north has no meaning. He still dreams of returning from duty to his wife and children in Mystic. Conn. A young Australian couple, Peter and Mary Holmes, use habit as an escape from the horror to come; they go on as they always have-sailing, giving parties, worrying when their small daughter has a sore throat or fever. Moira Davidson at first seems to drink too much, but a Platonic relationship with Commander...
Last week a persistent scientist named Edward George Bowen was proving that rainmaking can be notably successful when conducted as a long-range program with carefully limited goals. As chief of the Radiophysics Division of the Australian government's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Dr. Bowen was put in charge of Australian rainmaking more than ten years ago. By careful and skeptical investigation he soon discovered why most efforts had been failures. The commercial rainmakers' favorite method (because it was the cheapest) was to spray silver iodide into the air from ground generators. Dr. Bowen found...
Bowen began a study of Australia's weather almost cloud by cloud. He dispensed his silver iodide from generators on airplane's wingtips, learned by repeated experiment what kinds of clouds could be wrung out. Then, backed by the Australian government, he started a long series of carefully controlled experiments in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales...
...Australian public, forever haunted by fear of drought, has followed Bowen's program with enthusiastic appreciation. When a long dry spell last month threatened to ruin wheat planting in the Darling Downs district of Queensland, the parched farmers clamored for Bowen's rainmakers. He sent airplanes reluctantly, knowing he could promise added rain over a period of months-not cloudbursts on order. Even when seeded clouds obligingly dropped heavy rain on several large areas, Bowen refused to claim credit. Nevertheless he smiles a little when he hears of his growing reputation among grateful farmers. "There...