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...SILENT SKY by Allan W. Eckert. 243 pages. Little, Brown...
...bank of Ohio's Scioto River, sighted down the barrel of his BB gun, and sent a pellet smashing into the brain of a big red-breasted, blue-backed bird. It was the last wild passenger pigeon ever to be sighted. In this indignant, touching book, Allan W. Eckert, author of The Great Auk, details the wanton greed that extinguished this remarkable species and imagines a biography for the last wild survivor that died that morning on the Scioto...
Schweitzer clearly intended Lambarene to be his monument, and just before he died happily supervised the completion of a new ward. But soon after his burial, Schweitzer's daughter, Rhena Eckert, as much as admitted that the hospital might have a hard time surviving. "We will try to carry on his work," she told reporters, "but Lambarene as a spiritual center is irrevocably gone." In time, the Gabonese villagers may come to prefer the gleaming white government hospital a mile up the river. But Lambarene, and the world, will always have the memory of a giant who tried...
Ingenious Theory. What was missing from the mathematical calculations, Dr. Eckert thinks, is a vital assumption: the moon has no heavy core like the earth's. Instead, it must have a heavy shell with lighter material inside. This would make the moon more reluctant to turn on its axis, and the extra resistance would account for its computer-calculated shift of orbit...
...Eckert does not claim to know how the moon became lighthearted. One possibility is that it was originally formed of rather light rock that froze and became rigid, perhaps entrapping gases deep below the surface. Then, during two or three billion years, meteors rained on its surface, building up a thick layer of iron and other heavy materials. The truth of this ingenious theory will not be susceptible to a final check until a seismograph set by man on the moon's surface studies its interior by means of moon-quake waves...