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Working Off Steam. Today, the brightest jewel in Spain's African crown is Spanish Guinea, which Consists of the verdant, volcanic island of Fernando Poo, a few other smaller islands and the larger, rain-forest mainland province of Rio Muni. Thanks to steady help from Madrid, Fernando Poo boasts bountiful harvests of coffee, bananas and cocoa. It has a model road system, one of Africa's highest rates of primary school attendance (89%) and per capita income ($246)-and probably its biggest leisure class. When the Spanish government gave the island's Bubi tribesmen their own farms...
...Jesse Jackson's cadre of clergy marched for ten days until the chain hired 183 Negroes in jobs ranging from department managers to delivery boys; today it employs 309 Negroes. After testing Operation Breadbasket's strength, A. & P. stores in Chicago found 970 jobs for Jackson, and Jewel Tea has hired 662 Negroes. Dozens of other white employers did not wait for a boycott. "You can't calculate the number of jobs made available because they hear those footsteps coming," says Jackson...
...Jewel-Box Glitch. Tycho's significance lies in the fact that it is one of the moon's youngest and major craters. From its 15,000-foot depths, a pattern of grooves or ridges spokes out over hundreds of miles of the moon's pock-marked surface. The scientists hoped to compare the composition of this terrain with that of the low-lying basically basaltic equatorial "seas," studied by earlier Surveyors. Since Tycho is believed to have been formed by the impact of a giant meteorite, and by the intense volcanic activity that followed, a look...
...plan was to lower a "golden jewel box" to the moon's surface, dig an 18-inch hole with the spacecraft's mechanical arm and claw, then use the arm to put the jewel box in the hole. By bombarding the claw-dug moon material with alpha particles and measuring the speed and number of the rebounding particles, the 8-in.-sq. box could identify the chemical composition of substances beneath the moon's surface. Contamination by material from other parts of the moon and from meteorites would be avoided...
...tournament victory was satisfying, because Harvard had had a rough pre-season schedule, winning only three of seven games. But Gallagher's performance was the real jewel of the Nova Scotian weekend...