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Plenty of seedable clouds, says Dr. Bowen, drift over Australia without springing a leak. An area of some 1,000,000 sq. mi. to the west of the Great Dividing Range of eastern Australia is chronically in need of rain, and Bowen is sure that cloud-seeding can increase the precipitation of this area by a critical 50%. In northern Australia, the important thing is to make the rain come at the right time. This can be done, Bowen thinks, by seeding the yearly monsoon clouds, which often build up for weeks before rain begins to fall...
Downstairs in the building scattered sheets of yellow copy paper cover the desks and most of the News Board floor. Not a Crimed is in sight. Voices drift down the stairway...
This week the President of the U.S. described to a Republican audience in Boston Garden his idea of the Republican Party. It was founded, he said, "just a few months short of 100 years ago [when] the tremors of a divided nation were felt. To many, the drift toward civil war seemed fatefully sure. But there is no dispute as to the purpose inspiring the many groups who reached for a new hope and a new party which they called Republican. That purpose, everywhere plainly defined and passionately proclaimed, was to halt the extension of the institution of slavery...
...politicians are fighting and shedding ballots and blood; but on the banks of the river, people are raising children, building homes, making scientific inventions, puzzling about the universe, writing music and literature." In The Renaissance Durant pays just enough mind to the soldiers and politicians to establish the drift of the times, then quickly joins the builders on the banks...
Trieste was only one of the many issues contributing to De Gasperi's shaky position, but a favorable solution there could be enough to forestall De Gasperi's fall, and Italy's drift from the West...