Word: ens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...court of what country would have jurisdiction? Despite the fact that nations have forsworn territorial rights on celestial bodies, questions of property rights are bound to arise when exploration and interplanetary travel increase. The French have already raised one question: What happens if one nation establishes a mining camp en the moon and starts sending back valuable samples to the earth for analysis or exploitation? Is this an appropriation of international territory? Should some international organization be paid for mining rights? Who should license such projects, and how should the cost be deducted from any profits for tax purposes...
...Guards limit their scorn to foreigners. To Premier Chou En-lai's recent order to stop insulting and beating people, a member of the Red Guards last week replied: "Why shouldn't we insult? We shall also do some beating." The announced targets were "the rightists and revisionists" within the party, but in fact the Red Guards seemed to have declared war on the party in general. There were more reports of indiscriminate beatings of local party officials, and in one town the party leader was smeared with muck and dragged through the streets. Despite Chou...
...Hanover, N.H., Geologist Chester Lang-way Jr. has been dating the ice cores both by counting the yearly layers -much as the age of a tree is determined by counting its rings - and by isotope dating of bubbles of ancient air trapped when the ice was formed. Samples tak en from the bottom of the sheet have been found to be as much as 10,000 years old. The ice and the trapped air bubbles are also being analyzed for composition, organic and inorganic im purities, influences of climate and other characteristics that add up to a polar history...
...done a great deal for the voters. He has pushed through Congress a remarkable amount of valuable legislation and, despite his foot-dragging on inflation, will still preside over a thriving economy. And, as the year's primary elections have shown, no anti-Administration issues have tak en deep root. Nonetheless, if Lyndon Johnson truly aims-as he surely does -to continue as an effective President, he cannot do so without re-establishing his credibility with his constituents...
...there is a buoyancy in the air as autumn comes in with its blazing hues of foliage. Vacation time is past, but ahead are football weekends with all their tangy exuberance. And for many a family, now is the time for the weekend jaunt. Increasingly, the stop en route will be for good eating. Whether steered by word of mouth or by such guides to gastronomy as the Mobil Travel Guide (which this year sold more than 1,000,000 at $1.95 each), discriminating motorists are timing their trips to take advantage of the thriving country restaurants that in recent...