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...generally blame for rainfall. They appear too irregularly, and they never affect the whole earth in the same way at the same time. Bowen was more intrigued by the streams of meteors that the earth passes through on regular schedule. When he looked up the dates of known meteor showers, he found that they seemed to precede every peak of heavy rainfall on his charts. The prominent rain peak on Jan. 12 came 30 days after the Geminid meteor shower of Dec. 13. Other rain peaks came at about the same interval after other meteor showers. The explanation, said Bowen...
...Cold-Shower Glow. General Motors gave Reuther pretty much the same beribboned package that he got two weeks earlier at American Motors Corp.-but without profit sharing. One reason for G.M.'s sudden retreat was that it wants nothing to block what it hopefully expects to be a banner selling year. Said American Motors Vice President Ed Cushman: "You should have seen Walter's eyes light up like a pinball machine when two G.M. vice presidents predicted a 7,250,000-car year for 1962. Walter knew he had power there...
...Manhattan's Lower East Side, where a man had been reported roaming the streets with a rifle, a pair of New York cops last week began questioning a teen-age tough-and found themselves threatened by riot. A hostile crowd of some 200 persons milled around, a shower of bricks and other debris hurtled down from tenement rooftops. One brick, aimed at the policemen, struck and killed a bystander, Factory Worker Ramon Rojas...
...Selim's only son, Suleiman the Magnificent, was probably responsible for a good part of the collection. Under him, the empire stretched to the Adriatic Sea and gobbled up Rhodes. Suleiman's admirals could pillage the Mediterranean, and it was thought proper for a grateful admiral to shower his sultan with gifts...
Because of the number of showers, the task of picking a wedding present is increasingly difficult. Used more widely and efficiently than ever before is the custom of the bride's giving a department store a list of acceptable gifts; wedding guests may then call the store, buy their gifts. Like many another bridegroom, Washington's Jonathan Roosevelt, 21, son of Kermit Roosevelt and great-grandson of T.R., gaped at the store-sized inventory of presents ("Look at all that stuff") before his marriage this week to Jae Barlow, 20, a descendant of Edgar Allan Poe. Latest count...