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...also discovered something else--the art of starting from scratch. Scratch was his first junior varsity football game. He managed to center the ball back 39 feet and in the process, hit the fullback, Lothrop Withington Jr. '40, in the head. "Dietz has a great memory of his captain coming up to his locker," Dietz says (he often affects the third person), "and telling him he would be one of the six men who would not make the junior varsity trip to Yale...
Last summer Dr. Vonnegut led an elaborate thunderstorm study near Socorro, N. Mex., where a stationary thundercloud forms almost every day above 10,300-ft Mount Withington. The scientists flew instrument-laden balloons into the handy cloud; they flew airplanes through it and over it. With a helicopter they strung thin wires between Mount Withington and neighboring peaks, and used them to inject electrical charges into clouds. Though they gathered valuable information about cloud electricity, none of their efforts made lightning strike when they wanted...
...high-voltage prize is too valuable for Dr. Vonnegut to quit. Next summer he and his frustrated Joves will return to Mount Withington armed with new apparatus, including giant bows and arrows, for firing fine wires high into lightning-charged clouds. The experiment, they point out, has an eminently practical purpose. Radar observation of thunderclouds has shown that lightning often precedes the formation of rain. Vonnegut suspects that the lightning creates vast numbers of charged particles that cause a cloud's small water droplets to attract one another and swell into drops large enough to fall as rain...
...turret and two 20-mm. guns in the nose? Replied Pilot Mayer: The guns were inoperative. Why? Well - because of a lack of spare parts, which "are very difficult to get." Would the Navy make gun parts available for future hazardous missions? Answered Rear Admiral Frederic Stanton Withington, 57, U.S. naval commander in Japan: "I will sure do my best...
...Reason. Navy Chief Arleigh Burke grabbed a radio telephone to Admiral Withington in Tokyo and learned the embarrassing truth: the Mercator lacked no parts. Its nose and top guns had been dismantled to make room for top-secret radar and infra-red gear, used in mapping and aerial photography. And the damaged Mercator was returning from a reconnaissance mission along the North Korean coast when it was fired upon...