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...letter to Chatham County Commissioner Judge James T. Houlihan, Miami Forecaster Grady Norton spelled out his suspicion. Aerial seeding of the hurricane with dry ice might very well, he claimed, have diverted the storm from its course (500 miles out at sea, headed for Bermuda). The joint Army-Navy-General-Electric experiment (an attempt to break up the storm), Weatherman Norton explained, might have been at least partly responsible for the storm's abrupt left face and subsequent heavy march through Florida and Georgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Yankee Meddling? | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

Another pre-war tradition reappeared last night with the opening lecture in the Charles Eliot Norton series on the History of Art. Professor Erwin Pandofsky of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study spoke on "Early Flemish Art: Its Origin and Character" in the Fogg Large Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flemish Art Lecture Marks Renaissance of Norton Series | 11/6/1947 | See Source »

...Associated Press reported last night that Norton G. Pritchett, Director of Athletics at the University of Virginia, refused to comment on how Moravec was injured until he had seen motion pictures of the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bingham Bids Grid Arbiters To Crack Down on Clipping | 10/14/1947 | See Source »

...bright new figure at Littauer this Fall has remained close to the University picture since before the Twenties: first as a graduate student working under Frederick Jackson Turner and as late as 1943 in the Norton Regional Planning chair. He gives the several centers of study in public administration their due but likes to feel that here "more than any other place . . . there is a genuine reflection in the student body of the different parts of the country." This is perfect grist for the mill of a man whose special approach to American government emphasizes the interplay of sectional differences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Profile | 10/8/1947 | See Source »

...Brain a guided missile steerer. It would not have reached Brize Norton if the British had not sent out a beam to lead it. In wartime, enemy countries would not be so helpful. The Brain's principal use will be in commercial airliners, to help pilots keep on their courses in bad weather and land in thickest soup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: No Hands | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

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