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...moon's flat maria (waterless "seas") are almost certainly covered with lava that poured out on the surface billions of years ago, said Astronomer Gerard Kuiper of Yerkes Observatory. In those days, Kuiper told the astronauts at Denver, the moon's interior was kept liquid by radioactivity, so any disturbance, such as a large meteor impact, was likely to cause an upwelling of lava. Kuiper thinks that smooth places on the maria will make firm landing spots for earth's spaceships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How Far the Moon? | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

...bubbling lava of this decade's news be captured by human understanding and shaped into summary that makes plain sense? Can all the vast perplexities, defeats and triumphs of this time-cold war, Korea, emergent nationalism, threat of mutual nuclear destruction, democracy, prosperity, Hungary, Suez-be reduced to some essential theme? It was done last week in the span of 90 minutes in a space 290 ft. long, 68 ft. wide and 90 ft. high, on precisely the right occasion and in the right place for this achievement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: Call to Greatness | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

...building up its geography department," he notes.Knobby Sandstone, Etc. The map on the left is a small segment from Raisz's landform map of North Africa. Raisz uses special symbols for each type of land configuration, such as mountain, dendritic sandstream, dissected plateau, wind-etched limestone, knobby sandstone, lava, etc. Raisz thinks highly of this map. He tried to sell a copy of it to a student in History I62 (Westward Movement) who kept insisting he only wanted a map of the Pacific Northwest. Raisz found this hard to believe, but gave the boy what he wanted, anyway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scholarly Mapmaker Wants 'True Portrait of Mother Earth' | 1/30/1957 | See Source »

Gold has also demonstrated the possibility that dark regions on the moon are great dust layers, rather than massive flows of lava and has advanced an explanation of their origin. These dust clouds could have been formed, he said, by the constant bombardment of meteors pulverizing the surface...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: British Astronomer Thomas Gold To Join University's Department | 1/18/1957 | See Source »

...most explosive emotional actress of her generation had. in fact, erupted over filmland and was filling the vicinity with temperamental lava, flaming ash and general consternation. Soon after her arrival in the U.S., Magnani banished the TV set from her hotel room and ordered a grand piano, on which she battered tempestuously when the mood was on her. Bored with the chef's chef-d'oeuvres. she was seen marching up to her suite with $50 worth of groceries in tow. She gave interviews from her bed, her hair like a black dustmop, her bag-rimmed eyes like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: World's Greatest Actress | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

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