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...camera on the moon last week appeared to show only a crescent-shaped earth glowing in the lunar sky. But closer inspection showed two seemingly insignificant starlike dots of light on the night portion of the earth. They were historic dots. Each represented the light from an argon-ion laser beam aimed from Tucson, Ariz., and Wrightwood, Calif., at Surveyor's location near the lunar crater Tycho, some 240,000 miles away...
...keep the Russians at a distance, the two biggest revisionists in the Communist bloc have not been getting along ever since Ceauseşcu declined to support the Arabs in their fight with the Israelis in June. At a gathering in the Kremlin, Tito took aside Rumanian Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer in a corridor and upbraided him for his refusal to toe the pro-Arab line. He then went home in a fury and canceled an invitation to Ceauseşcu to visit him in Belgrade...
...public office to make a killing from Islip's surging land boom. Their favorite stunt was to buy residential land around Islip, rezone it for business, and then sell at a handsome profit. It was a coordinated effort. In one instance, the paper discovered, Town Attorney Walter Con-Ion, who was later appointed a state tax commissioner, drew up a resolution relaxing zoning restrictions on land he had bought in partnership with a Long Island hoodlum. Town Councilman Donald Kuss then introduced the resolution before the town board and pushed it through. Conlon's company made...
...kind of ions present at various levels of the sun's atmosphere depend on the temperature there. Each kind of ion, a chemical elements stripped of one or more electrons, emits a different wavelength of ultraviolet light...
...often the case in science, researchers at the University of California's Lawrence Radiation Laboratory were attempting to synthesize an entirely different isotope when mendelevium 258 was created. A team led by Nuclear Chemist E. Kenneth Hulet was using the laboratory's heavy ion linear accelerator to bombard a tiny amount of einsteinium (a transuranium element discovered in 1952) with alpha particles which consist of two protons and two neutrons. "We expected the alpha particles to join with the heavier isotope of einsteinium," says Hulet, "and then decay by a process called 'electron capture' to fermium...