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...following inning, a single by Kent Hathaway, a walk to John Getch, and another error loaded the bases for the Crimson with two men out. Giersch forced in the winning run by walking pinch-hitter Charlie Leamy. Then, after he passed Tom Bergantino, he was replaced by Dave Bowen, who walked in the final run before retiring Saia...
...LION AND THE THRONE, by Catherine Drinker Bowen. Biography in the grand manner; the life and times of Sir Edward Coke, who became the watchdog of the common law, bluntly told British kings that law was their sovereign and defined legal principles that stand triumphant three centuries later...
...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...
...conclusions are calculatedly sober. Dr. Bowen's figures show that seeding by airplane achieved approximately 20% increase in the amount of rain that fell on the test region. For $225,000 a year, he estimates, he can drop extra rain worth $2,200,000 on a hydroelectric watershed...
...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...