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...loved her summer vacations at the mountain resort of Karuizawa, where the Shoda villa lies within sight of the smoking crater of the Asama volcano. Michiko lived in tennis shorts, was on the courts nearly every day, enjoyed dropping into the little village shops for rice balls and noodles-a passion that absorbed nearly all her monthly allowance of $2.78. The reddish tinge had vanished from her hair, but she seemed ashamed of its persistent and un-Japanese curliness, and confessed that her childhood nickname had been "Temple-chau," after Shirley Temple...
...Kozyrev shows a spectrogram with an unusual bright streak, and explains what he thinks happened. The reddish patch over the crater's central peak he believes was caused by volcanic ash shot out of the moon's crust. The dust settled quickly, since there is no air to keep...
...Kozyrev tells how he trained a 50-in. telescope on the moon on the night of Nov. 2-3 and took spectrograms of the crater Alphonsus. While he was watching, he saw the small, central peak of the crater lose its sharpness and turn reddish. By the time he changed the plate to take the next spectrogram, the peak was white again but much brighter than usual. A third spectrogram showed the crater back to normal...
...Harvard thinks that Kozyrev certainly saw something happen on the moon, but it may have been merely a jet of gas breaking out of a crevice. Physicist J. H. Fremlin of the University of Birmingham, England theorized in this week's Nature that if the bottoms of lunar craters are deeply covered with dust, as many astronomers think, they are likely places for gas eruptions. The dust layer, says Fremlin, would be a good heat insulator. It would trap under the crater's floor the heat generated by radioactivity in the moon's rock. Many times...
...Navigator Gradel's blast-out broke his arms and legs, his right shoulder, lashed his face and knocked him unconscious. He woke to see his parachute above him, passed out again on the way down. The needle-nosed $8,000,000 Hustler screamed down, tore a 30-ft. crater in the ground, cracked up into thousands of fist-size pieces-remarkably enough, the first B58 crash since the 1,500-m.p.h. bombers were unveiled two years...