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...operation. The vehicles start like an outboard motor, are tractioned by rear tanklike belt treads, and steered by handle bars attached to two front-running skis. On steep downhill runs, they give the driver all the thrills he can handle; yet, piloted sensibly, they are relatively safe. In a spill, the driver is usually thrown clear into soft snow, and the snowmobile stops as soon as his hands release the throttle...
...Cubby-Hole Enlisted Men's club in Long Binh, 20 miles north of Saigon, about 300 G.I.s were having their spill of beer and good cheer. Suddenly a spotlight pinned an opening door, and out wafted a striking blonde. For a second, the soldiers were dead silent. Then stomping, cheering and pounding on tables, they scrambled over each other to get a better look...
...position and movement of the troughs are significant, says Krown, because they are associated with the streams of cold air that suddenly spill down from the Arctic every October, bringing clouds and rain to herald the change of seasons. "If I am finally proved right," he says, "there ought to be similar findings at similar latitudes." The latitudes he is talking about are between 30° and 50° north of the equator, which includes the southern part of the U.S., where both agriculture and business could benefit from more accurate long-range weather forecasting...
...response to sexual repression, is not promiscuity, but an enrichment of sex, it should be compeld to the mind and carried into every corner of life not allowed to spill over the landscape...
...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 cumulo-nimbuses tumbling into the sky, frequently to spill rain. Snow has been seeded in the California High Sierra, and airports have dissipated fog with dry ice. As the American Meteorological Society put it earlier this year: "Weather modification today is a reality...