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...University's Lamont Geological Observatory and provided the theoretical basis for things like submarine geology and attempts to study the underwater mountain range that bisects the Atlantic. Nor does he slight the host of others who have mapped the ocean bottoms, peered into smoking volcanoes or attempted to drill through the earth's crust to the semimolten mantle that surrounds its liquid core. Along the way, Sullivan scatters suggestive pieces of evidence with a skill that would do credit to Agatha Christie. He points out that the ancestors of certain North American animals seem to have come...
...scratches as the cast belts them out. As the aging astronomy prof, and the geriatric football coach, Alice Faye and Gene Nelson attempt to hoof and puff and blow the house down; they only succeed in underlining the show's decrepitude. Nor can Michael Kidd's manic drill-sergeant direction hide the melancholy truth that because a thing is old does not mean it is an antique; junk is junk...
Melun's underground reservoir contains hot (about 160° F.) but not boiling water. To get at it, French Engineer Pierre Maugis, 65, drilled a 5,850-ft. hole, which allows the water to escape to the surface. There, it is passed through a radiator-like device called a heat exchanger, which heats water from the city's regular water supply. The temperature of the city water is raised from about 50° F. to 149° F., hot enough to use in bathtubs or sinks filled with dirty dishes. The water is also sent through floor pipes...
...women's new units. At the same time, the Army has reclassified 136,000 jobs, opening them to women. Thus there have recently been a myriad of female firsts on various bases: the first female parachute rigger, the first turbine-engine maintenance woman, the first female drill sergeant. Actual combat is still barred to women, though that too may change if the Equal Rights Amendment is passed...
Last week the Glomar Challenger again made news. Another team of geologists announced that in July a drill lowered from the ship in midocean, about 200 miles southwest of the Azores, had penetrated 1,910 ft. into the earth's hard crust under the Atlantic bottom sediment. It returned core samples from depths never before explored; the previous record penetration was 260 ft. into the submarine crustal rock. Said Geochemist William Melson of the Smithsonian Institution: "It was like probing into the unknown, getting samples we had thought about for years but had never been able to reach...