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Perhaps the biggest surprise of all came from the seismometers left be- hind on the moon by Apollo 12 and 14 astronauts. The sensitive instruments have registered moonquakes every month when moon and earth come closest together, detected meteor impacts and shown that the moon's interior is in. deed unique: it "rings like a bell" when hit by a meteor. In contrast, the earth barely vibrates when it is struck. To Seismologist Gary Latham, the moon's resonance means that the upper 60 miles of the moon are composed of fragmented and jumbled rock. In addition, ) Apollo instruments have...
...word and deed, Ted Heath now has forced upon his countrymen a truly historic decision. They can join the six-nation European Economic Community, renouncing a legacy of insularity that began in 1558 when England lost Calais to the French. Or, in the words of the White Paper, they can "stand aside from this great enterprise and seek to maintain our interests from the narrow -and narrowing-base we have known in recent years...
Earth Bonds. By word and deed, Bunting, who is 45, has often shaken up the banking establishment. He has accused other bankers of discriminatory hiring practices, and has made plans to add a woman, a black, a priest and a consumer activist to First Pennsylvania's board. He would like the Federal Reserve Board to have a double standard for reserve requirements, enabling banks to provide special low-cost loans for socially useful projects, including construction in housing-short areas and black business development. Last year his bank introduced "Earth Bonds," a form of savings bonds, with most proceeds...
...impossible to limit the quest short of killing off the quester: man himself. In deed, those who would set limits are the ones who tamper with "the natural order of things...
...Bryant stood before U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell in Washington, D.C., to await sentencing after having been convicted of killing two FBI agents. Under the law, Judge Gesell had only two alternatives: electrocution or life imprisonment. Though he declared that death was merited by the mercilessness of the deed, the judge spared Bryant's life. "It would not serve the ends of effective justice to allow the defendant the luxury of all the special attention that a capital penalty would generate," he said. Addressing the defendant, Gesell intoned: "Mr. Bryant, you will die in jail, but at such...