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...most plentiful substance identified by Surveyor's alpha particle "jewel box" (TIME, Sept. 22) is virtually the same as the basaltic rock that forms the ocean floors and is found in such widely scattered locations as the Hudson River Palisades, the Brazilian Plateau, the Hawaiian Islands and India. Like its counterpart on earth, the lunar material consists largely of oxygen (58%) and silicon (18.5%). It also contains aluminum (6.5%), iron-nickel (5.5%), magnesium (3%), and smatterings of carbon...
London. But in spite of the book and the free cups of carefully brewed coffee available at the meeting, no one was certain that harmony would prevail. "Fifty percent of our delegates are pessimistic," said Brazilian Representative Georges Maciel, "and the rest feel no optimism." The reason was that no nation had a very clear idea of how to eliminate the present surplus or stop the flood of newly harvested coffee beans that continues to roll...
...consorcio lottery method for financing cars [July 21] may be "typical of Brazilian ingenuity and flair," but its origins are in the Old World. Although such rotating credit associations are known widely in Asia, Africa, and now in Latin America and the West Indies, the most likely source of the Brazilians' consorcio is the esusu of the Yoruba of Nigeria. Whether it was originally introduced to the New World by Africans, Chinese or East Indians, this popular method of saving is now known as boxi money in Guyana, meeting in Barbados, partners in Jamaica, esu in the Bahamas...
Still leary of the theory, Hurley returned to the U.S. and organized a joint group of U.S. and Brazilian scientists to compare radioactively dated rock samples from two African regions with others from South American areas...
...snuggled together in a mammoth land mass surrounded by a single shimmering sea? Did the continents begin to drift apart some 200 million years ago? Some scientists believe so, and many recent findings support them. This month still more compelling evidence of continental drift was reported by U.S. and Brazilian geologists. Their principal finding was that two highly distinctive adjacent geological areas on the Atlantic coast of Africa match perfectly with a pair of rock regions located along Brazil's northeast coast...