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Precipitating the downpour was a study commissioned by Presidential Science Adviser George Keyworth II. The White House panel bluntly called for remedial action even if some technical questions about acid rain were still unanswered. "If we take the conservative point of view that we must wait until the scientific knowledge is definitive," said the panel, "the accumulated deposition [of acid rain] and damaged environment may reach the point of 'irreversibility...
Brilliant sunshine gave way to rain later in the day when the Pope reached Katowice, a steel-producing city in the Upper Silesian coal-mining region. The heavy downpour did little to dampen the spirit of the crowd of 1.2 million that was waiting for John Paul under a forest of umbrellas in a vacant airfield outside the city. When the Silesians spotted the Pope stepping from the papal helicopter, they let loose with a boisterous chorus of Sto Lat (May You Live a Hundred Years), all but drowning out a brass band of black-suited miners...
Watson's visit itself did not do much to help the industrialist distinguish himself from his dusty-haired namesake: Just moments after he began, a powerful downpour sent most of the audience fleeing for cover...
...Maine the downpour came none too soon. Harvard was already leading 1-0, and judging from the Crimson's continued slugging, the second game would have been no different than the first...
...players, Hogs (offensive linemen) and Smurfs (miniature receivers) alike, reacted as calmly as anyone who has been personally welcomed home by the President of the United States, though citizens of the District of Columbia were slightly excited. The city staged a parade that was well attended despite a downpour (500,000 people, double the number greeting the hostages from Iran). The bands had to elbow their way along Constitution Avenue in single file. Good news does not pass this way too often...