Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four Keys to the Reliquary. Orvietans decided to build a cathedral (one of the most beautiful in all Italy) in which to keep their corporal. A Sienese artist, Ugolino di Vieri, was commissioned to make a reliquary to hold the corporal. Made of silver with exquisite enamel representations of Christ's Passion and tiny figures in true gold, the reliquary with the corporal has been Orvieto's proudest possession for more than six centuries. Because of a tendency by Orvieto's bishops to regard the reliquary as the exclusive possession of the church, there have been various...
...cloud drifted over Orvieto. Hail began to rattle down. Quickly, the people understood the sign: the hail would have shattered a glass-roofed truck. The closed truck was best. Maurizio Ravelli, who looks after the reliquary, had built into the truck a triple floor with springs and delicate silver pistons to ease the passage of the reliquary. Driven at 15 m.p.h. over roads strewn with scarlet poppy petals between rows of kneeling, weeping, praying people, the reliquary made its journey to Rome...
...much of the Southwest, power companies, water districts, even farmers and cattlemen are hiring rainmakers to seed the reluctant clouds. Langmuir presented evidence that such overenthusiastic use of silver iodide has already prevented rain in certain areas...
Another danger of the current rainmaking boom in the Southwest is that the silver iodide particles, invisible and almost undetectable, may drift to the humid eastern part of the country (which often has too much rain) and cause damaging floods. Langmuir cannot prove that this has happened; the new technology of "meteorological engineering" is still too young to draw such definite conclusions...
...believes that "there ought to be a law," or at least a voluntary agreement, controlling the amount of silver iodide to be fed into the atmosphere...