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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...
...LION AND THE THRONE (652 pp.) -Catherine Drinker Bowen-Atlantic-Little, Brown...
...historian: "What Shakespeare has been to literature, what Bacon nas been to philosophy, what the translators of the Authorized Version of the Bible have been to religion, Coke has been to the public and private law of England." What goes for English law goes for American, too. Catherine Drinker Bowen, who wrote about lawyer-patriots before (Yankee from Olympus, featuring Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and John Adams and the American Revolution), has produced an outstanding biography of Sir Edward Coke-it appeared briefly on the bestseller lists-in which greatness of personal achievement is framed in a superb setting...
Readers of Author Bowen's biography may be tempted to compare Justice Coke with her earlier subject, Mr. Justice Holmes. Seen superficially, both were liberals and doughty fighters for freedom against privilege. But they meant very different things by freedom, privilege, and, in the end, by the law itself. To Coke, the law, however flexible, must be based on permanent principles and rest above persons. To Holmes, the law was based less on permanent principles than on current need, an experiment shifting with the times. To Coke, liberty was "such a fellow that he will have no sovereign...
...stick to their regular-season script, the Panthers should have roared right back in the third quarter. Instead, Bowen fumbled the kickoff. Tech End Wesley Gibbs recovered on the Pitt 37. Until then, the Engineers had tried only one pass and scored a touchdown. They tried another and got a first down. A third got another first down. Then a pitchout to Rotenberry thoroughly flummoxed the Pitt defense, and the score went...