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...moon, says Astronomer Cudaback, is probably covered by a thick porous layer that is as light and airy as finespun cotton candy. It is also possible, he says, that there is a foamy crust of crumbly, crackerjack-like material or a lunar honeycomb with cells intact and filled with gas. The moon got that way, he figures, because it has been bombarded with meteors for billions of years. Striking the moon's skin with enough energy to melt 100 times their own mass, the meteors liquefied rock or whatever else they hit, splashing gobs of molten material all over...
...Three Ricks--Rick Ballard. Rick Cotton, and Rick Hertzberg--paced the Crimson attack with dazzling passes, uncontrollable runs, and vicious defensive maneuvers. WHRB's lone score came when the CRIMSON, out of charity, let the radiomen try for two points from the two yard line. Mike (Hands) Donnelly caught a shaky pass from Miles (The Arm) Jaffe...
There is nothing vague about Peter Dominick's philosophy: he is a fulltime, working conservative who stands for less government and less spending. Said he of his opponent's record on spending bills: "The guy I'm running against voted for every one of the cotton-picking, things." That opponent was Democratic Senator John Carroll, a 100% liberal who edged in by 2,770 votes six years ago, later lost votes by putting his daughter Diane on his congressional payroll at $12,500 a year while she attended Georgetown University Law School. Carroll, a fumbling campaigner...
...Public Service-is considered enlightened self-interest by the Kadoories, on the ground that business in Hong Kong prospers only if the colony is well fed and politically stable. The brothers have also taken a lead in establishing new industries in labor-surfeited Hong Kong. They helped Refugee Cotton Magnate Y. C. Wong get started, and they were among the founders of the five-year-old Hong Kong Carpet Manufacturing Co., whose customers include New York's Nelson Rockefeller and the royal families of Britain, Thailand and Ethiopia...
...free-enterprising government of Premier Constantine Karamanlis took office in 1954, it has stabilized the drachma and set Greece on the course toward industrialization. The economy is still lopsidedly agrarian. More than half of the 8,400,000 Greeks scratch out a living on uneconomic fruit, tobacco and cotton farms; 8% of the non-farm labor force is jobless, and 25% of those on the land are "underemployed...