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...quite sure why ultraviolet light has these effects. Since Jupiter's atmosphere is not like the earth's, its spots may be formed in a somewhat different way. Dr. Mintz suspects that Jupiter's white spots may be clouds of ammonia crystals floating high, like the cirrus clouds in the earth's atmosphere. Its dark spots may be places where the Jovian atmosphere is unusually clear...
...Work in the Attic. At 63, Gary is a thin, lively, garrulous man with a richly seamed face, a sharp, inquisitive nose and a thin cirrus of unruly grey hair. Since the death of his wife in 1949 he has been a lonely man who sometimes eats pork pie for breakfast, lunch & dinner in the kitchen of his Oxford house where (his sons off on their own) he now lives alone. With all his ailments, Gary is tough and wiry, and likes to take long walks every day. During a lengthy conversation he is as apt as not to chin...
...maneuvers dramatized the urgent need for arms standardization. The Belgian squadron flew wartime Spitfire XIVs, the Dutch used vintage Sherman tanks, and rifles varied from Garands to Lee-Enfields to the new Belgian .280 caliber. Coming this week: "Operation Cirrus," the biggest air maneuvers yet undertaken by NATO air forces...
...freezing) water droplets into snowflakes. The flakes sink to warm lower levels, melt and fall as rain. But if there are too many iodide particles competing for the moisture in the water droplets, the snowflakes formed are too small to fall. They may even rise, drifting off as thin cirrus clouds that never yield any rain...
Although the idea of "Project Cirrus" had been well received by expert meteorologists, the plan met with unexpected opposition from Catskill residents yesterday. Ulster Country farmers and hotel owners filed a suit naming Mayor William O'Dwyer and water officials of the city as "conspirators" in the perpetration of a "gigantic hoax...