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Prospecting for Steam. The largest and most accessible steam fields are located west of the Rockies, where volcanic activity has brought molten, lava-like rock known as magma close to the earth's surface. The 1,500° F. magma either releases its own trapped water as steam or, like a gigantic coffee percolator, vaporizes water that has seeped down into the earth...
...appendages reaching 1,500 ft. from tip to tip-a distance greater than the height of the Empire State Building (which is 1,472 ft.). With those great legs foraging for information, RAE-A will act as a flying radio telescope capable of monitoring signals that even the largest earth-bound installations cannot detect...
...Buddah has piled up first-year sales of $5,800,000 and has already grown to be the nation's seventh largest producer of single records...
...Spanish castle, stands right in its midst. "Just about every visitor to London goes to Harrods," boasts the store's 31-year-old chairman, Sir Hugh Fraser, who succeeded his father two years ago. "It ranks with Buckingham Palace and the Tower." Now Western Europe's largest department store, Harrods is the pride of the House of Fraser Ltd. (1967 sales: $243 million), the chain which bought the eight-store Harrods group for about $100 million...
Thai Fish. If all goes well, the bank by 1971 will have a capitalization of $1 billion to be lent for struggling projects throughout Asia. The largest contributors, Japan and the U.S., will by then have invested $200 million each...