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With its facile, steel-tipped aluminum claw, which can be extended to 5 ft., Surveyor dug and photographed more trenches, helping to confirm its earlier finding that the soil at the surface in this area of the Ocean of Storms is dry and granular but has the cohesiveness of wet sand. By measuring the current drawn by the electric motors that operated the claw, JPL scientists determined that the surrounding surface has a bearing strength of 6 lbs. per sq. in., more than enough to support the Apollo astronauts...
...rose ever so slowly over the lunar Ocean of Storms, the spidery, three-legged newcomer hesitantly extended and flexed its aluminum, accordion-like arm. Then, reassured that the numbing cold of its flight through space had done no harm, it reached down and pressed its steel-tipped claw into the moon's surface, leaving a small dent. Opening its claw, it deliberately gouged a small trench near its feet, curiously watching each movement to determine the nature of the lunar soil. Thus last week Surveyor 3 became the second U.S. spacecraft to achieve a successful lunar soft landing...
...measuring the current drawn by the electric motors that power Surveyor's arm, scientists will be able to determine the strength and compressibility of the moon's surface. Close-up TV pictures of the soil disturbed by the claw will provide additional information about its texture and cohesiveness. In last week's preliminary tests, for example, it took a pressure of 4 lbs. per sq. in. to make a dent 1½ in. deep in the lunar surface. And TV pictures demonstrated that there was little or no crum bling of the trench walls, indicating that...
Since 1956, the U.S. king-crab catch has grown from barely 9,000,000 lbs. to 150 million lbs.; it is expected to keep rising by 20% a year for the foreseeable future. Most popular on the East Coast, the king crab averages a 4-ft. claw-to-claw spread. Its claw and leg meat (the body is not used) is somewhat tougher than blue crab, tastes remarkably like lobster, and retails at $2 per lb., which is far cheaper than either...
...Romney has declined to take a definite stance, asking time for deep study of the problem that will include an Asian tour later this year (he first visited Viet Nam in 1965). Fair enough. But last week, with the conclusion of his ruminations still far off, Romney began to claw at Lyndon Johnson's Viet Nam policy without offering a hint of possible alternatives...