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...Keller, runner-up in the foil at the national championships last year. is gone So too are all-Ivy epee Geza Tatrallyay and sabre Toni Abbott...
...Ocean of Storms presents an eerie face, its black shadows starkly contrasting with the blinding white reflection of early morning sunlight from the desolate, rock-strewn surface. The black-and-white monotony is broken only by the color brought to the moon by man-the golden insulating foil on Intrepid, (continued on page 41) the red and blue of the American flag, the golden reflection from the umbrella antenna-and the blues of the earth in the sky above...
...skipper in preliminary chores. Together they will set up a large, umbrella-shaped S-band antenna (for better TV transmissions), place the TV camera on a tripod about 20 ft. from the LM, unfurl a solar wind experiment to trap high-speed particles from the sun on aluminum foil, and -in the only ceremony planned for the mission-plant a U.S. flag...
...Perrier desires Genvrain, the largest company in France's inefficient and fragmented dairy industry. The French government heartily approves Perrier's bid, which would both foil any foreign attempt to take over Genvrain and represent a major move toward consolidating France's 3,000 scattered dairy firms. Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing indicates as much in a meeting with the publicity-shy strategist of Perrier's expansion, President Gustave Leven. Perrier makes a generous proposal for Genvrain: $56 a share for stock that was selling for $45 on the Bourse. Genvrain would...
Other unions have threatened to tie up the whole economy. Yet nowhere has the brass been more badly tarnished than in Cipolletti, a fruit-packing town of 32,000, deep in the interior. There, the aroused residents used hoes, sticks and a sackful of cats to foil a long bureaucratic siege, a provincial governor and three puppet "mayors...