Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Light clothing for day wear is essential. Lightweight, waterproof, ankle-height boots are necessary for climbing and long walks, and convenient even for sloshing around the camp in the rain; and a warm jacket will come in handy at night. Many campers pick up inexpensive Army knapsacks at surplus stores, generally a good source of equipment...
...power saw biting into the big trees; the drone of an airplane far overhead, the growl of a lumber truck on a steep grade, the small talk of tiny birds in the bushes, and the murmuring of a mountain stream. And at night: the goose-pimpling patter of rain on the canvas that wakes a child, the stark clarity of detail in the tent when lightning flashes, and the crack of thunder and its rolling echo around the lake shore...
...study designed to disprove the accepted theory that lightning is caused by the friction of rain in the atmosphere. A.D.L.'s theory is that lightning comes first, causes rain by rearranging a cloud's electrical field. If true, this could open the way to making rain by firing bolts of electricity into clouds...
Nearly 5,000 miles from familiar forests, the traveling New Zealand naturalists were delighted to find that they might well have been tramping their own woodlands. There in the rain forests of southern Chile were vast stands of beech, remarkably similar to the trees of their native land. The damp Chilean glades were greenly upholstered with ferns and mosses almost exactly like those that grow in Australasia. Even swarming insects looked the same as the insects of home. How did delicate plant and insect life ever make the difficult migration across great southern oceans or the hostile icecap of Antarctica...
Witnessed in the average, seedy courtroom, the law seldom appears in the vestments of majesty, and the justice it dispenses often descends with a harshness very unlike Portia's rain from heaven. But for Author Sybille (A Legacy) Bedford, courtrooms hold living drama. Two years ago, in The Trial of Doctor Adams (TIME, March 16, 1959), she showed a spectacular talent for lending suspense and excitement to a criminal trial by heightening, not distorting, the events through unsparing observation. Since then she has prowled courts in Britain and all over Europe, observing, with her keen novelist...