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Target Mohole. This effort is part of Project Mohole, which will cost more than $20 million. It is backed by the National Science Foundation, and its goal is to drill clear through the earth's crust to the "Moho,"* the boundary between the comparatively light rocks of the crust and the much denser mantle, which extends downward for i ,800 miles and whose properties are largely unknown. Geophysicists are sure that even one hole drilled to the Moho will tell invaluable volumes about the history, structure, content and behavior of the earth...
Jacob Meyer served two hectic terms with genuine distinction. There was little criticism directed at him. Most everybody was afraid to express criticism for fear of being accused of antiSemitism. Meyer's Administration broke the crust of old traditions and old prejudices. He left office on such a churning tide of democratic sentiment that he was able, miraculously, to pick his successor and have him elected against incredible odds: the first Negro President...
...scientifically stimulating myth" and "improbable religious myth" he scoffed at the folk tale of all the animals descended from a male and female of each species set aside in a special bomb shelter during these prehistoric times. He also questioned the religious doctrine that the basic freezing, and radioactive crust represents God's place of punishment...
...concluding, Homer recounted some of the major questions raised by crust-stage like which will confront the new University Research Center devoted to the field...
...Already, the ancient belief that man's stature exceeded four feet at some point in history," the philosopher told his amazed listeners, "has stimulated important research in the physicology of growth and shrinkage." Another intriguing question which must be studied, according Homer, is whether, during the brightly over-mined crust stage, man had any sort of optic organ...