Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coat. But he obviously enjoys danger. His once cherubic face is now deeply lined, and his hair is flecked with grey, but his sturdy arms and legs are hard with the muscles of a sportsman. He is an inveterate hunter, horseman, scuba diver and deep-sea fisherman. He introduced water-skiing to Jordan, then took up kiting. Above all, he loves speed, and at the wheel of his silver Porsche 911 is usually a winner in Jordanian sports-car events. To the horror of his security men, he is also addicted to motorcycle racing and free-fall parachute jumping. Before...
...familiar a problem in some sections of the state that permanent electric signs have been erected along the New Jersey Turnpike to flash warnings of fog and to cut speed limits. But New Jersey motorists may soon have a clearer view. By borrowing a discovery used to produce water in Chile, state transportation officials hope to be able to sweep long stretches of highway clear...
...collected into drops on nylon lines, scientists at the Northern University of Chile in Antofagasta constructed wood and metal frames strung with vertical strands of nylon and set them up on nearby hills. As the fog was blown through the frames by the evening wind, it formed water droplets on the strands that dripped into receptacles below, quickly filling them. With enough frames, the Chilean scientists believe they can supply the water needs of a medium-sized city...
Bellis and other scientists think that the moving nylon filaments jog the minute fog particles together, causing them to combine into water droplets large enough to drip down the threads. To test the brooms outside the laboratory, the New Jersey researchers have set up 20 in a field outside Trenton and equipped them with photoelectric devices that start their motors when a fog settles in. If they effectively clear a corridor through the fog, the devices will probably first be placed in operation along a stretch of highway five miles west of the Lincoln Tunnel that is frequently shrouded...
These qualities are nowhere more apparent than in The Sailor from Gibraltar, an expansive, leisurely novel written in 1952 but only recently translated. A year ago, British Director Tony Richardson turned the book into a water logged movie starring Jeanne Moreau at her most brackish (TIME, May 5). That was too bad, and unnecessary, for the book at its best has the sunny charm of one of Renoir's floating picnics...