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...present project in New Mexico he now spends most of his time with his eyes fixed on the hot summer skies, watching for new clouds to conquer. He has teamed up with Dr. E. J. Workman, president of the New Mexico School of Mines, who has begun a new series of experiments, studying the electrical habits of thunderstorms...
...neither Langmuir nor Workman is overanxious to publish their latest results. Both feel that too much silver iodide is being sprayed around the Southwest these days. It might be just as well to leave matters as they are for a while before western clouds are overseeded or the chemicals drift to the east and cause too much rain...
...Desert Maiden. In front of the new white laboratory of Workman's New Mexico School of Mines in Socorro stands a brick-red statue of an ethereal young girl holding a bird at her bosom. The students call her "the desert maiden," but Dr. Workman says she is Santa Rita, "Patron Saint of the Impossible," and just the right patroness for a physics...
...assiduous and thoughtful workman who shuns the babble of Washington party going (he plows through a briefcase full of documents every night at his Chevy Chase home), Dean is well-liked in the capital and on good terms with the powerful and ofttimes crotchety congressional Atomic Energy Committee. But as an administrator and a long-range policymaker, he is not regarded as the equal of David E. Lilienthal, who resigned the chairmanship in February after guiding AEC through its first tough three years. Nor is he considered as competent as outspoken Commissioner Sumner T. Pike, a Republican, who was renominated...
...workman threw a bucketful of water down on Dominick. Another squirted a fire extinguisher at him. The fire puffed out. Dominick had made no sound, but he had endured fearful burns. His shirt was all but gone, he had breathed flame, and his throat and lungs were scorched. The rescue work stopped and Dr. Harold Berson, a young intern from Coney Island Hospital, was lowered to him. He greased the burns and gave Dominick morphine; a priest was lowered, performed the last rites of the Catholic Church...