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...young and violent mountains, not yet fully grown or pacified by time. Still-active volcanoes pock the spiny range running the length of western South America. Avalanches rumble down constantly from the 20,000-ft. peaks. And beneath the earth's jagged crust, fantastic forces grind and churn, producing violent earthquakes-most often in Chile. Of the thousands of big and little tremors recorded around the world each year, about 15% occur in Chile. One quake in 1906 took 3,000 lives. Another in 1939 left 30,000 dead. Five years ago, still another killed 5,000 people. Last...
...give them something different, the two companies now churn out a confusion of products-bottle caps, plastic containers and paper cartons among them-although cans still account for more than half their sales. Continental is about to open two new plants to make plastic bags, has just come out with a new plastic motor-oil "can"-the fourth switch in its oilcan materials in as many years. American has just introduced tiny aerosol tubes that contain a seven-day supply of such items as hair spray and shaving cream for travelers, is spinning out a line of two-tone scented...
...gladly suffer all faultfinders, including those whose eyes, too irritated by motes and beams no longer removable in drugstores, see little that is good in a sad world. When it comes to the fair, I know what disturbs the chemistry of the critics. Their sour stomachs dis tend and churn when they hear that we have discovered gold nuggets on the banks of Flushing Creek. The truth is that they hate like hell to see the fair moving to success. I don't overrate these people, but one drunk can interrupt a Mass; a rotten egg can silence Hamlet...
BELL SYSTEM. Inside the building, plopped beside the Fountain of the Planets like an upside-down flatiron, a soothing voice says "Fasten your seat belts and adjust your earphones." The floor seems to churn, the roof to fall as the chair-ride jogs along into a spooky tunnel where the spectator sees a 3-D drama on communications. The exhibits include Picturephones on which you see whomever you talk...
...Righini and Deutsch now believe that there must be cool spots in the corona, but they can only guess at the mechanism that makes these cool spots possible. Perhaps, they say, the corona is threaded with magnetic fields that churn it around, making it lumpy and unevenly heated. Whatever the final explanation, it may provide an insight into solar flares, the violent sun storms which generate radiation that can kill a man in space...