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Some scientists would like to see weather-modification programs accelerated. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Colorado State University and others have conducted studies showing that carefully designed cloud-seeding programs can increase snowfall in areas of the Rockies by 15% or more, and Colorado authorities have appropriated nearly $200,000 for seeding clouds in four areas of their state. Lewis Grant of Colorado State University believes that clouds over the Rockies should be seeded routinely in years of abnormally low snowfall. Says he: "As far as I'm concerned, the medicine has been on the shelf ready...
Some producers are also refusing to pump from wells already drilled. Jones Co. Ltd. of Albany, Texas, spent $4 million drilling four wells in Colorado that one partner, Jon Rex Jones, estimates could be delivering gas to customers in six months. But he insists that he will not connect them to a pipeline unless he is certain of getting $2 per 1,000 cu. ft. for the gas. In addition, producers in Houston readily tick off examples of fields where they are sure gas exists in commercial quantities, but where they will not drill. Reason: unless the interstate price goes...
After sliding out of Division I during the '74-'75 season, the Crimson rebounded, finishing at the top of Division II. This year, because of a change in NCAA regulations. Harvard is in a position to send three or four skiers to the national championships in Colorado in the spring...
...whole season comes down to the Middlebury meet, which determines who is good enough to go to Colorado. Previously, team standing qualified racers for the trip, but new regulations provide for the-top 20 individual racers to go. Harvard usually places three or four racers in this category...
...effort to discover what reaction there would be following the forecast of a major earthquake, J. Eugene Haas and Dennis S. Mileti of the University of Colorado's Institute of Behavioral Science interviewed hundreds of public officials, businessmen, journalists and families in earthquake-prone areas of California. Their conclusion, made public in a 40-page study: unless planning is begun now to prevent it, "the first credible earthquake prediction ... will exact a very high price in economic dislocation and social disruption...