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...With their methods checked by this workout, the Japanese scientists waited for more explosions, which came fairly soon. Last Aug. 26, an electrical instrument recorded a sudden rise in atmospheric electricity north-northeast of Japan, presumably in North eastern Siberia. It was not like the rise caused by a thunderstorm, but showed the characteristic profile of an atomic explosion. Four hours later came an air wave. It was only one-sixth as strong as the waves resulting from the U.S. tests, but Dr. Miyake says this does not mean that the Soviet explosion was only one-sixth as powerful. There...
Lightning laced the sky at Pekin, Ill. (pop. 22,000) one night last week as a thunderstorm rolled over American Distilling Co.'s plant outside town. At 2:30 a.m., a lightning bolt crackled into a rack house full of 100-proof whisky and started a fire that quickly spread to three other buildings. In all, 40,000 barrels-equal to 8,000,000 fifths-of Good Old Guckenheimer, and Bourbon Supreme and other brands were destroyed. Firemen stood helplessly outside a ring of flames so intense that a coal pile 100 yards away began to smolder...
...Shall Never Surrender." Orr did not know it, but his action was the death knell of Operation China. The news hit British headquarters like a tropical thunderstorm : there were conferences and ultimatums, but the only hope that remained lay with Policemen Henderson and Ruck. At week's end, the pair made one last brave attempt to make Operation China work. Heavily armed, but heavier still with bitter disappointment, they drove into a forest rendezvous. It was April 10, the deadline set for Mau Mau surrender; Kareba had promised to return with many chiefs who wanted to give up. Henderson...
...Less than two years later, Dick Nixon was the Republican nominee for Vice President. He was running a smooth, effective campaign when a thunderstorm burst over his head: disclosure of a private fund raised by backers in California to pay some of his political expenses while he was a Senator. Democrats bellowed that the money was 1) raised from favor-seeking-California fatcats, and 2) used to provide Nixon with luxuries. They demanded that Ike drop his running mate. Some Republicans did, too. Ike called for the facts and let the storm blow...
...third or fourth reading. Among the seven selections never before published in the United States is a short discourse on the Thurberian approach to word games, pointedly titled, "Do You Want to Make something Out of It? (or, if you put an 'o' on 'understo' you'll ruin my 'thunderstorm...