Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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August 1980. Perched on his polar-orbiting platform 200 miles above the earth, the Weatherman in the Sky begins a routine scan of the earth's surface. Beyond the green necklace of the Antilles, Hurricane Clytemnestra begins to collapse, shredded by a continuous aerial barrage of silver-iodide seeds from U.S. planes. The weatherman flashes Moscow that intense hail is due to fall on Irkutsk by early afternoon, and the Russians quickly send up rockets laden with chemicals, melting the hail before it lifts the wheat fields. As for more mundane matters, vacationers on Cape Cod will have...
...boldest single weather-control project, Project Stormfury, the Navy is now trying to prove that hurricanes can be steered or wiped out by seeding their centers with silver-iodide crystals. Russian antiaircraft cannons regularly bark over the mountains of Georgia and the hail-blasted steppes of Siberia, pumping tons of silver iodide into the sky at intervals of ten to 15 minutes until storms subside. In France, Meteorologist Henri Dessens has created le Météotron, a superstove that covers 3,200 square meters and has 100 burners that can generate 700,000 kilowatts of power to send...
Once man knows more precisely just what the weather is going to do and where, he can not only prepare for it but bring to bear his modern tools to dissipate its force, change its course or moderate its impact. Silver-iodide seeding has revived its once-faltering reputation, and many future plans revolve around seeding everything from tornadoes to typhoons. The Soviets are testing sound as a possible way to disperse fog, have even suggested damming the Bering Strait to make the Arctic warmer. Several countries have suggested melting part of the icecap by coating it with heat-absorbing...
...Lowry Bowman was seething with discontent. Rewriting other people's stories rewarded him with continual frustration; the repetitious 11 a.m.-to-7 p.m. routine bored him. Though he lived in a comfortable apartment in suburban Silver Spring, Md., it irked him that his kids "were growing up playing in a parking lot-imagine that, a parking...
...dangers predicted by doubters. There has been no hint of a malpractice suit, which some doctors feared such nurses could get embroiled in. And the local physicians, who might have muttered about leaving doctoring to doctors, have welcomed the much-needed help. By last week two more of Dr. Silver's nurse-practitioners had set up a similar operation in a housing project in Denver. Another graduate has joined Nurse Stearly in Trinidad, where townspeople are beginning to recognize the long, athletic stride of their first nurse-practitioner and a few of the children have even shyly started...