Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...responsible for dozens of the burgeoning brood of refineries and petrochemical plants that have sprung up in the South and Southwest, also handled the reconstruction of Guam after World War II. Recently, Brown & Root snagged the prestigious $40 million Mohole contract to drill through the earth's crust, and it has just started construction of NASA's $90 million Manned Spacecraft Center near Houston. Its average yearly business: $300 million...
Photographs taken through the great telescope at California's Lick Observatory, and released last week, reveal the moon's pockmarked crust in astonishing detail (see cut). Forbidding mountains loom above broad valleys and sharply defined crevasses, just as they will appear to approaching astronauts. But for all their clarity, the pictures leave a vital question unanswered. What is the moon actually made...
...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...
...days in Vermont she returned to set those "silly stories'' straight. "My dad is an accountant, not a coal miner.'' she said, "and I was born in Brookline, Massachusetts.'' She did indeed live in Pennsylvania for a while, but it was in upper-crust Bucks County, with her divorced mother and stepfather. "He's an architect." College? Well. no. "College was just impossible." So after high school she went to work as a girl guide in a Bethlehem Steel plant, and then it was on to New York and the Plaza Five modeling...
Sources close to the crust indicated last night that Miss Shirley Booth, Academy Award winning actress for her role in Come Back Little Sheba, will receive the Hasty Pudding's Woman-of-the-Year award some time early next spring...