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Because they did not learn enough in school, 300,000 young potential recruits each year flunk the armed forces' simple aptitude tests. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara partly blames civilian teachers who not only failed to impart knowledge, but sent students into "a mental fog of boredom, confusion and noncomprehension." He thinks that the stripped-down, highly functional, systems-analyzed teaching techniques of Defense Department schools can reach these kids, and he expects to "salvage" 100,000 of them a year...
...otron, a superstove that covers 3,200 square meters and has 100 burners that can generate 700,000 kilowatts of power to send cumulo-nimbuses tumbling into the sky, frequently to spill rain. Snow has been seeded in the California High Sierra, and airports have dissipated fog with dry ice. As the American Meteorological Society put it earlier this year: "Weather modification today is a reality...
...bring to bear his modern tools to dissipate its force, change its course or moderate its impact. Silver-iodide seeding has revived its once-faltering reputation, and many future plans revolve around seeding everything from tornadoes to typhoons. The Soviets are testing sound as a possible way to disperse fog, have even suggested damming the Bering Strait to make the Arctic warmer. Several countries have suggested melting part of the icecap by coating it with heat-absorbing carbon. U.S. scientists are considering the possibility of generating dust clouds in space to form sunshades, or creating broad bands of ice-crystal...
...woodwind players. When one violinist came late to rehearsal, Stokowski ceremoniously pulled out his book and made a big circle around his name. Next day, a replacement was sitting in his chair. He can also be the very soul of charm. Says one musician: "He is like the morning fog. When it lifts, everything is wonderfully lucid and beautiful. When it falls again, he is absolutely inscrutable...
...book trade calls it a Gothic novel. The dust jacket usually shows a terrified young woman running across a lawn, while in the background a ghostly old mansion or château looms menacingly through the fog. Following the chilling tradition of Wuthering Heights and Rebecca, the Gothics thrust innocent and high-minded young women into gloomy households where husbands and lovers are breathlessly suspect, where hidden rooms and violent traditions abound, where hidden doors creak ominously, lights go out mysteriously, and improbable coincidences are just too much for words...