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Call Me Richard. The "like father, like son" pattern goes only so far. Grizzled Lee Petty is a link to the old school of stock-car racers, the back-country leadfoots who learned their trade racing hot-rods around dusty country-fair horse tracks or outrunning revenooers on the South...
Ironically, there has been summer rainfall high over the Northwest. But the air temperature has been raised so much by an abnormally warm summer that the rain has evaporated before hitting earth. Lightning generated by these abortive rainstorms has continued to strike, setting fire to dried underbrush and causing an...
Recognizing the difficulties of putting out huge fires, scientists at the U.S. Forest Service's Northern Forest Fire Laboratory, established at Missoula, Mont., in 1960, are concentrating on prevention and early detection techniques. Their most dramatic accomplishment to date is the perfection of an aerial infrared scanner that can...
Computerized Flames. The scientists are also learning more about the habits of nature's arsonist, the lightning stroke. Their research tools include sensors for detecting electric-field charges, photoelectric devices for measuring luminosity, photographs and recordings of thunder. From studies of some 3,000 cloud-to-ground lightning flashes...
At the next strong point-Tel Faqr -the Barak (Lightning) Battalion also lost most of its halftracks and was pinned down by fire. Groups of five and ten Israelis charged up the hill. The torpedo charges for breaching the barbed wire had been lost with the half tracks, and the...