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...their own, the Japanese get about 1,250,000 barrels of oil a day, or 60% of their needs, from the Arabs. As for the U.S., it has more than enough oil of its own, and the tankers loading last week at, for example, Houston, hardly made a dent in the city's vast storage areas...
Alabama-born and bred, Johnson could not be more sensitive to his state's cherished traditions and prejudices. His courtroom in Montgomery is only seven blocks from the statehouse, where a band played Dixie while Jefferson Davis was sworn in as Confederate Presi- dent, and where
...Storms, the spidery, three-legged newcomer hesitantly extended and flexed its aluminum, accordion-like arm. Then, reassured that the numbing cold of its flight through space had done no harm, it reached down and pressed its steel-tipped claw into the moon's surface, leaving a small dent. Opening its claw, it deliberately gouged a small trench near its feet, curiously watching each movement to determine the nature of the lunar soil. Thus last week Surveyor 3 became the second U.S. spacecraft to achieve a successful lunar soft landing. "We've not only placed man's eyes...
...compressibility of the moon's surface. Close-up TV pictures of the soil disturbed by the claw will provide additional information about its texture and cohesiveness. In last week's preliminary tests, for example, it took a pressure of 4 lbs. per sq. in. to make a dent 1½ in. deep in the lunar surface. And TV pictures demonstrated that there was little or no crum bling of the trench walls, indicating that the soil was quite cohesive, perhaps like wet sand...
...week of little practice, Harvard's men of the links either played very well or very poorly yesterday. Bo Keefe, the number two man and the team's most consistent player so far, was most impressive, shooting a 73, two over par. That was good enough to wallop George Dent of Columbia, 5 and 4, and Tom Lindenfield of Penn...