One minute the water was calm. The next, surging waves crashed against the piers, ships rolled at anchor. Then the stooping, kind-faced man leaned forward and pressed a buttonand in a few seconds the water was still again.
Premier Robert Schuman, who had started and stopped the tempest in the model harbor at the French government's new hydraulic laboratory at Maisons-Alfort last week, was pleased. "What control! It's uncanny," he remarked.
High Winds. A toy storm was pleasant, for a change. All week Robert Schuman had been grappling with man-sized tempests. He badly needed a magic button to pressbut nowhere in...
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