Word: boulder
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Died. John Lucian Savage, 88, designer of the Boulder, Grand Coulee, Shasta and a host of other hydroelectric dams; after long illness; in Englewood, Colo. In 21 years as the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's chief design engineer, Savage drafted plans for 60 major U.S. dams, yet still was earning less than $10,000 a year when he retired at 65-after which he started a second, more remunerative career as consultant on a score of foreign projects, including Switzerland's Super-Dixence Dam and India's Koyna irrigation project...
...avoid shutting down large portions of the city water system when they began installing water meters at every residence, water-department workers in Boulder, Colo., turned to cryogenics. At each house, they poured liquid nitrogen over the inlet pipes, which froze the water inside for 20 minutes and enabled them to install the meter without losing so much as a drip...
...single year, hailstorms can cost U.S. insurance companies tens of millions of dollars. Now, after helplessly enduring bombardments of hail for centuries, man is effectively mounting a counterbarrage of his own. In an 88-page report recently translated into English at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., Russian scientists say that they can suppress hail over large areas by firing antiaircraft shells into hail-producing clouds...
...scientists are impressed, and hope to stage similar tests in the Great Plains hail belt. Physicist Byron Phillips, a hail expert for the U.S. Environmental Science Services Administration at Boulder, suggests that inexpensive ; rockets might be even more efficient. Eight rocket stations, he says, could protect the entire state of Kansas...
Just south of Boulder, Colo., at the junction of the Great Plains and the Rockies, stands 600-ft.-high Table Mountain, a grassy mesa populated until recently largely by deer, summer hikers and an occasional coyote. Now, through the clear, crisp air, Boulderites daily behold a new sight on Table Mountain: a taut, pure compound of rusty pink cylinders and cubes that soars skyward above them...