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Taking leave of their own problems for a while, five nuclear scientists at the Atomic Energy Commission's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory were discussing the difficulties of Project Mohole, the National Science Foundation's plan to bore through six miles of the earth's crust northeast of Hawaii. What kind of drill would stand...
...Terrace. The ten sullen teenagers are overprivileged, amoral and aimless, and their upper-crust parents are too obtuse or indifferent to notice...
...Keefe has concluded that the arėtes are volcanic, are probably made of stiff lava forced out of parallel cracks in the moon's crust. Some of them may have erupted during the moon's youth. Much more recently - 100 million years ago or less - one of the cracks may have opened agan and oozed laval to form a cluster of low black mounds on a plain that was already thickly peppered with debris from young Tycho...
...sees the sun transformed into a monstrous spider or a thousandarmed octopus. His girl visits him. They go to the beach, where Adam feels himself turning to a statue, "his flesh freezing into a minera1." He runs, and suddenly knows that the earth is hostile, molten under a thick crust; he has visions of "the flames of petrified nature." He goes to the zoo, and feels "at one with the lizards, mice, beetles or pelicans. He has discovered that the best way to mix with a species is to make oneself desire a female member of it." He follows...
NOTHING BUT THE BEST. A lower-crust clerk (Alan Bates) hires an upper-crust crumb to teach him the niceties of Establishment snobbery in this stylish, often superlative British satire...