Word: thunderstorms
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...puffing his pipe and preparing to paint a Post delivery boy. Inside, there is an eight-page salute to Rockwell, together with a slew of the original Post's oldfashioned, gray "narrative illustrations," which made it seem as if every scene were taking place in an incipient thunderstorm. Other old standbys abound. There are reprints of Tugboat Annie and Thomas Wolfe. The bylines of Paul Gallico and Ellery Queen are back, and so is that veteran Hollywood doorbell ringer, Pete Martin, with "I Call on Ali McGraw." William...
WINTERHAVEN, FLA.-When it rains, it pours, the little salt-shaking girl used to say and yesterday the Red Sox brought a torrential thunderstorm to the Royals. Salting K.C. thoroughly were five Bosox sluggers who bombed the bleachers for eight big ones while Jim Lonborg, mysterious as Boston weather, regained his '67 pitching form...
...Neal, was willing to run through a collection of head-ons and profiles before the camera. Is it possible this could be a psyche move by the three-time champion? Or was Gary just upset because of the way the standing-room-only crowd drenched the champ in a thunderstorm of boos during his semi-final match yesterday...
...mystery may now be solved. Physicist Edward Pierce reported to a recent conference on lightning and static electricity in San Diego that spraying sea water into holds can generate static electricity at the same rate as a summer thunderstorm. Though the resulting spark would be no lightning bolt, it could touch off a highly explosive mixture of air and oil vapors...
...upon his evidence quite by accident. To aid in a study of water pollution in St. Louis two years ago, he invented a device that could measure pollutants and nutrients in water. He set the instrument in his goldfish pond and found that after a rainfall, particularly after a thunderstorm, the amount of free nutrients (vitamin B12, for example) in the water suddenly increased. Because such substances are normally associated with living organisms, Parker could not imagine why they should be present in rainwater-"unless there is something going on up there...