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...Irving Langmuir, high priest of scientific rainmaking, sounded a solemn warning last week: those who sow too many rainstorms may reap nothing but droughts. Speaking at the School of Mines in drought-threatened New Mexico, Langmuir denounced the commercial rainmakers, many of them woefully ignorant of the art, who are seeding the atmosphere with silver iodide throughout the dry Southwest. "Some of them," he said, "are using hundreds of thousands of times too much. No more than one milligram [.000035 oz] of silver iodide should be used for every cubic mile...
...foresaw during that campaign," said Irving Ives, "that the deliberate partisan effort to injure Mr. Dulles' reputation . . . was striking a dangerous blow at the cause of bipartisanship ... I am constrained to observe that those who sow the wind should not be surprised if they sometimes reap the whirlwind...
That fight was not settled, but another farm fight was. Stealing out of the canebrake, Southern Congressmen pushed through a bill to allow cotton growers to sow 1,200,000 more acres of this already too plentiful crop, with guarantees of government price support. They also managed to increase peanut planting (another so-called "basic" crop) by 100,000 acres. What the farm program (a bipartisan measure) would cost this year no one could say. To take care of it, the House, by voice vote, unhesitatingly increased CCC's borrowing power another $2 billion...
...wearisome game of cops & robbers in the Caribbean. The U.S., busy across the globe, was worried lest someone,' some day, might take advantage of a Caribbean quarrel, slip inside the hemisphere's back door, and use a l»cal spat in the American family to sow the seeds of Communism or fascism...
After days of futile inquiries and protests, the British Embassy announced last week that it had obtained Kirton's release. The police, until then mum about the whole affair, finally admitted that the arrests had been made-in an investigation of "a plot to sow confusion and dissension." Next day the federal judge charged with the investigation denounced the plot as a phony, ordered the rest of the suspects freed. Federal Police Chief Arturo Bertollo hurriedly departed for a few weeks' rest in Argentina's beautiful Andean lakes region...