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...impact of asteroids up to 90 miles in diameter, which blasted great holes in the crust at a time when the moon's interior was hot and plastic. Dark lava welled up in the holes, and is visible there today. Kuiper thinks that the shock of the last big asteroid, which dug the sea called Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains), may have caused pressures inside the moon that made lava flow out in other places, forming other seas. The lack of seas on the far side of the moon, says Kuiper, favors this theory, since the meteor impact that...
...prosperous French businessman, Bouché was born 54 years ago in Prague, traveled much in youth, early demonstrated a flair for art, and made his first big money with fashion drawings for the Paris Vogue. Now settled in Manhattan, he spends a third of each year in Europe, charges $3,000 to $8,000 a portrait. He once dabbled in abstract expressionism, now pooh-poohs it: "I consider myself the avant garde, because nobody sings the song of the upper level of society today. Nobody speaks of the exceptional human being...
This week Still, who has not shown a single painting in seven years, is relenting in a big way, as Buffalo's Albright Art Gallery opens its doors on a one-man show of 72 oils covering 21 years. Still set stiff terms: all pictures were to be hung by himself, all competing modern canvases were to be banished from sight...
Died. Louis Shattuck Gates, 77, onetime (1930-47) president and board chairman (since 1947) of Phelps Dodge, which he helped make into one of copper's Big Three; in Manhattan...
...they want in the next railroad agreement to replace the one that expired last week. Preliminary wage sparring has already gone on. The unions pressed for a 36?-an-hour boost, and the industry has counterproposed a 15? wage slash. Despite the wide gulf in wage proposals, however, the big fight will still be over union featherbedding. To eliminate featherbedding, the rail companies asked the rail unions to: ¶ Extend the basic day's mileage pay from 100 miles to 160 miles. The 100-mile rate was established in 1919, when freight trains averaged 12½ m.p.h., passenger trains...