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Surveyor's findings are admittedly based on tiny samples. The spacecraft's alpha-particle analyzer covered only two 4-sq.-in. areas and probed them to a depth of only 1/1,000th of an inch. And it is conceivable that the lunar highland regions have a chemical composition different from that in the Sea of Tranquillity, where Surveyor landed. But scientists believe that Surveyor's findings are typical of the makeup of the other lunar seas, or basins...
Designed to test the effects of weightlessness on living organisms, the temperature-controlled Biosatellite was stabilized in orbit to provide less than 1/100,000th of the earth's gravity for its tiny occupants. It also was equipped with a strontium 85 source that irradiated some of the organisms with gamma rays to determine whether the effects of radiation were different under weight less conditions...
...oddball nominations, including recent proposals for the commemoration of mothers-in-law, the ten most wanted men, the Texas longhorn, the pretzel industry, the hamburger, the 100th anniversary of the first daylight bank robbery in the U.S. (a heist on Feb. 13, 1866, in Liberty, Mo.), and the 4,000th anniversary of the pickle...
With only two planes (Lockheed turboprop Electras), about 160 employees and the San Francisco-Orange County route that nobody wanted, Air California has snared an impressive and rapidly growing volume of business. By last week, when it flew its 80,000th passenger, the five-month-old airline had taken in $1,000,000 in revenue, revved up its schedule from five to a minimum of seven flights a day each way, and ordered two more Electras to expand service. Explained Air California President J. Kenneth Hull: "We're in competition with the freeways...
...involved even deigned to take notice when Agatha Christie's comedy-thriller, The Mousetrap, passed its 6,000th London performance last week (v. a measly 2,238 for former British record holder Chu Chin Chow). Since opening night in 1952, more than 2,000,000 people have bought tickets to the tiny (435 seats) Ambassadors' Theatre, and 97 actors have peopled the play's eight roles. "Just about everybody in England has seen it except the Queen," says Producer Peter Saunders, "and she thinks she's seen it." Author Christie, 76, has given no interview...