Word: crusts
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Died. Felix Vening Meinesz, 79, Dutch geophysicist who spent years in submarines measuring variations in the earth's gravitational pull, then developed a widely accepted theory of the origin of continents based on currents in the molten material below the crust of the earth, winning many honors, among them a Doctor of Science degree from Columbia University, which cited him as "a Jules Verne come to life"; of complications following a fall; in Amersfoort, The Netherlands...
...lack of these, many Indians are pessimistic about the future. "Everyone is' waiting for the Americanization of India," says Essayist Nirad Chaudhuri, "but what they are going to get is the Hinduization of industry." Such critics fear that modernization is by no means inevitable; a thin, progressive upper crust might continue to live side by side with a vast, impoverished mass...
...irrationality as for their deliberate calculations. They see Cambridge as a community without coherence or distinguishing characteristics. They wish there were a greater degree of homogeneity among different elements. Instead, they accept the inevitability of periodic conflict, and see the University, associated as it is with the upper class crust of the City, as a major component of the bipolar alignment that has traditionally characterized Cambridge: "the Brattle Street crowd" versus everybody else...
Luna's gamma-ray measurements indicated that the moon has a crust some what similar to the earth's. The satellite also established for the first time that both the number of meteorite particles and the strength of the magnetic field in the vicinity of the moon are higher than in interplanetary space. It also discovered 70 to 100 times as many energetic electrons as are expected in outer space. Russian scientists attributed the electrons to the "earth's magnetic tail...
...somehow; occasionally just plain good luck comes along to give them a boost. A few years ago, feudal Libya was written off as a hopeless non-nation-until oil was found floating beneath the deserts. Barren Mauritania may yet bloom from the rich iron and phosphate deposits in its crust. Some unlikely nations have been struggling along for many years-little San Marino smack in the middle of Italy, Haiti and the Dominican Republic-and there is not much hope that their situation will improve. On the other hand, a minuscule country like Switzerland, divided into several parts by language...