Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...associate with him. Even those who have left his staff over policy decisions are quick to defend his intellect and his motivations. And if personality traits do not redeem bad decisions and repugnant policies, they do a great deal to make them more understandable; for at the top crust of Washington policy-making, it is the impact of decisive personalities-not that of impressive intellect-which ultimately spurs the winning recommendations and gives them decisive force. And if his reading of Metternich has taught Kissinger anything, it is that personality could ape beau-ideal, and that once in the seat...
...dream of this reality is "a great web of patterning oscillations and quiverings" somewhere in a "finer air" beyond the earth. She visualizes a perspective from which mankind looks like "a minute grey crust here and there." Amid the harmony of the spheres "life is one" and "I" is no longer divorced from...
Puzzling Boulder. Scientists were equally pleased. Even before the astronauts returned, astronomers at McDonald Observatory in Texas reported that they had managed to bounce laser beams off the newly placed corner reflector at Fra Mauro; such experiments may provide valuable clues to the movements of the earth's crust and the slight wobble of the globe (see following story) as it spins on its axis. The rest of the $25 million package of experiments deployed by the astronauts also performed extremely well under unusually trying circumstances; four days after the instruments were set up in the lunar highlands, there...
...crust itself is probably relatively thin. But during differentiation, the tug of terrestrial gravity would probably have pulled more dense material to the side of the moon facing the earth. As a result the crust there would have been slightly squeezed and become thinner than that on the far side. Indeed, such an uneven distribution of crust was offered by University of Chicago Mineralogist Joseph Smith to explain the paucity of maria on the far side. These great lunar seas are believed to be vast upwellings of lava, perhaps from volcanic eruptions set off by the moon's collision...
...eventually met up with another segment of the ridge system called the East Pacific Rise. But the moving continent did not stop at this natural barrier; instead it bulldozed right over it. As a result, the West now sits smack atop this hot seam in the earth's crust...