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...Geophysicists will place ultrasensitive instruments deep in the earth. In such studies, tiltmeters will measure shifts in the position of vast subsurface areas, and, ideally, laser devices will be able to measure micro scopic expansion and contraction of bedrock, while strain seismographs monitor the kind of subsurface stress and crust slippage that occurs in fault zones...
Although such studies are highly expensive and painfully slow, scientists hope that a gradual buildup of information about the earth's crust and interior will someday enable them to create a computerized earthquake-warning system. But that day is far off. For now, says Dr. Clarence R. Allen, former director of Caltech's seismological laboratory, "these phenomena cannot be predicted-and there is no assurance that they ever will...
Armed with a pair of 2-in. metal bars, one of them magnetized, Surveyor 4 was designed to test the extent to which material in the moon's crust may be attracted by a magnet. In turn, this information might have yielded new clues as to whether the moon's surface features were formed by volcanic activity or by the impact of meteors...
...Northwest Territories. A Confederation Train loaded with exhibits of Canadiana has drawn S.R.O. crowds at every whistlestop. Recently, a chorus of touring Eskimos gave their rendition of 18th century German chorales. Everywhere Canadians seem bent on shattering what Prime Minister Lester Pearson recently described as "the Anglo-Saxon crust, the old grey Canadian tradition...
...editors are not much impressed with the pretensions of high society. "We aren't pressagents grooming society's image," says Frances Moffat, women's editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. "We're reporting the scene." Concentrating on her city's long-revered upper crust, she shows much more enthusiasm for quips about their flirtations and affairs than for their marriages and charity balls. In one column she idly wondered how to send an invitation to a couple who are living together out of wedlock. "Should you accept the situation and send one invitation, or ignore...