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...head for the hills!" called Cape Kennedy launch control to the Apollo crew. Apollo 13 did just that. It lifted off into the hazy Florida skies in a cloud of flame and, only six-tenths of a second late, headed toward the hilly highlands near the lunar crater Fra Mauro, 246,000 miles away...
...target for Apollo's lunar module, which the astronauts have named Aquarius, is an area near the Crater Fra Mauro (named for a 15th century Italian monk-cartographer). Located 110 miles from Apollo's Ocean of Storms landing site, the target area is covered with jagged hills and ridges, some of them hundreds of feet high. There are relatively few level sites in the vicinity, and the landing will require all of Command Pilot Lovell's skill. But the Apollo 13 astronauts-whose motto is Ex Luna, Scientia (From the Moon, Knowledge)-are taking the risk because...
Lunar Past. Fra Mauro is a particularly interesting highland area. Blanketed with rock and soil, it is covered with debris that was probably ejected by the massive impact that created Mare Imbrium, or Sea of Rains, some 300 miles to the north. Indeed, some of this primordial matter, thrown up from depths of 100 miles or more, may have been involved in the original formation of the moon. Fra Mauro is probably also covered by other layers of debris that were spewed out by the meteorite impacts that created the craters Eratosthenes and Copernicus. In addition, volcanic material...
...paraphernalia, and coyly clinical ''sex education" films pack moviehouses. In Hamburg's seamy, mile-square St. Pauli district, whose fleshpots draw 300,000 visitors a month, businessmen who are shy about being spotted on the notorious Reeperbahn can swing into an underground garage, park, choose a fraülein at a discreet Kontakthof (contact court), then take an elevator to one of two six-story, modern sexscrapers named Eros Center and the Palais d'Amour...
...even grander physique (320 lbs.) gained Baccaloni a reputation as "the greatest scene stealer in the business." Toscanini discovered him in Italy in 1925, and the young giant packed houses around the world before coming to the Met to appear in such roles as Don Pasquale, Doctor Bartolo and Fra Melitone...