Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that ole Kennedy-loving TIME has "discovered" that Jack plays golf, I want to read about it. Every time President Kennedy puts his lace-curtain hands on a putter, rain or shine, night or day, TIME had better print...
Miss Raskin has sold the commercial rights to holey smoke to Dow Chemical Co. Besides skywriting, she sees a wide variety of potential uses for her discovery. Among them: 1) smokes to protect crops from frost; 2) military smokescreens and signals; 3) seeding rain clouds; 4) throwing up screens for the projection of movies (or advertising...
...Klein's favorite color is I.K.B. (International Klein Blue), which has something to do with the space age. In Krefeld last week there were generous expanses of I.K.B., some "living brush" canvases, and a few paintings that looked as if they had been left out in the rain. They had. Klein produced The Wind of the Voyage by strapping a large I.K.B. canvas to the radiator of his car and driving through a storm. Says he: "It gives me a feeling that I am not wasting my time when I drive." "The true painter," declares Klein...
Cool Droplets. In Scientific American, Cloud Physicist B. J. Mason of London's Imperial College of Science and Technology tells of experiments made to determine why some clouds give rain while others float high in the air until they evaporate. When he carefully cooled small droplets of very pure water, they did not turn to ice until the temperature fell below - 42° F. This proved, as had been suspected, that ice crystals seldom, if ever, form in moderately cold clouds unless some solid nucleus is present to start the process...
...There they gather a little ice, forming thin, veil-like cirrus clouds. When they fall through dry air, most of the ice evaporates, but tiny bits remain trapped in crevices. When these ice-seeded particles get mixed with a moderately cold cloud, they make it yield snow or rain. Mason argues that much of the earth's precipitation is wrung out of clouds by just such "trainable" earth-dust particles. Kaolinite and other kinds of clay are extremely cheap, so it may be possible to make sure that the air over thirsty countries always has plenty of just such...