Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London, partly because of the father-son relationship, Bureau Chief Elson generally stays away from religion stories. Father believes that he himself, after 39 years of journalism, may have the edge in news experience and judgment, but thinks his son "much better informed" in religion and better educated in philosophy (at Notre Dame). Son John similarly hesitated to work from his father's files: "We are both a little edgy about it." But there comes a time...
...this week's cover story on the Archbishop of Canterbury, the bulk of the London reporting came from Charles Champlin. But it was natural for the London bureau chief to add a few words about the church's role in today's morally troubled Britain. Elson also traveled down to a little village in Dorset, where in a book-lined study that looked like a stage setting for Trollope, he had an engaging interview with the previous Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher. Son John read his father's file, then relaxed: "He's a good...
Bombing Esther. After the wide spread hurricane havoc of 1954 and 1955, the U.S. Weather Bureau began an intensive program aimed at learning how to slow a hurricane down and make it change course. Observations from air planes and balloons showed large quantities of supercooled water high above each hurricane's heat chimney - the rising column of moist, warm, low-pressure air near the storm's calm eye. Meteorologists speculated that if this water could be turned to ice, the energy released in the process might change the chimney's pressure enough to calm the raging winds...
...Weather Bureau sent a strike force of airplanes on a "bombing" mission aimed at Hurricane Esther's heat chimney. Into the chimney they dropped eight finned, 130 lb. bombs which spewed a cloud of minute silver iodide particles as they fell. The crystals acted like small ice "seeds," and supercooled droplets of water instantly froze around them. Instant icing released the latent heat of fusion, equivalent to the energy of eight 20-kiloton atomic bombs. In one hour, radar showed that a 160° segment of the chimney had been knocked out. Maximum wind speeds dropped by as much...
Waiting for Beulah. Encouraged by the results, the Weather Bureau last year joined forces with the Navy in Project Stormfury, an experiment to determine if large-scale, continuous seeding could kill a hurricane early in its career. But for all its grand plans, Stormfury's experimental attack is highly restricted by the fear that something may go wrong. In 1947 the Navy seeded a hurricane far out in the Atlantic, then watched in embarrassed amazement as the storm turned abruptly and careened in a devastating swath through Savannah, Ga. Though no one could prove that seeding caused the course...