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Died. Maurice Neville Hill, 46, British oceanographer, a Cambridge University professor who in 1 947 devised a method of determining the thickness of the earth's crust by measuring the seismic effect of explosions in the water, thereafter led a series of expeditions that in 1953 placed the thickness of the crust beneath the Atlantic at an average three miles; of self-inflicted gunshot wounds; in Cambridge...
Tombaugh believes that the canals are faults or fractures, several miles wide, in the Martian crust. Their darkening and fading may be caused, he says, by the intermittent escape of hot gases that melt a thin layer of frost and vegetation. The oases where the faults intersect, he speculates, are probably impact craters where moisture gathers and promotes the growth of moss or lichenlike plants hardy enough to withstand the harsh Martian climate...
Anthony Barringer, a Canadian geophysicist, is unbothered by Soviet se crecy. At a symposium on remote sensing in Huntsville, Ala., last week, he theorized that Luna 7's radar may have failed to "see" a top porous layer of the moon's crust. As a result, the space ship crashed on its way to a landing on the hard lunar rock below...
Cigar-Sized Jets. The first of seven unmanned Surveyors that Hughes Aircraft built at a cost of $420 million will make a soft landing on the moon early next year, bite into the moon's crust to determine whether it is soft or hard, then use a long-legged TV camera to show observers on earth how deeply it has sunk. After Surveyor reports, Grumman Aircraft's buglike Lunar Excursion Module, for which the company has received a $400 million contract, is expected to ferry two astronauts from the orbiting Apollo capsule for the U.S.'s first...
...Orleans, America's most hedonistic city, the humid air last week was laden with the stench of death, the streets overlaid by a fetid crust of mud. Day after day, as the floodwaters seeped back into the Mississippi, armed police and health crews pursued the macabre task of recovering human bodies and countless animal carcasses. They shot hundreds of snakes-and two alligators -that had been swept up from the swamps and dumped into the city by Hurricane Betsy. Dozens of citizens had been bitten by stray dogs crazed by hunger and salt water...