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...surface to form a crust). In the words of Apollo's chief scientist, Noel Hinners: "It is a piece of the solar pot from which all the inner planets are made. We had no idea of that before we went there." Indeed, it is the rich lode of moon data already brought back by Apollo that makes the premature conclusion of the program such a bitter disappointment to many lunar scientists...
...Curly (Joe Don Baker) gave him a fast $15,000 for the rights to raze the family shack and extend Curly's housing development. Ace blew it all mining in Nevada, "20 feet from the mother lode," but he is fed up anyway and wants to move on to Australia...
...dark. But it was World War I which made broadcast radio possible and salable, by consolidating electronics companies and freezing patent feuds. After the war, RCA wrested American Marconi from its British parents, exercised patent controls, and became, in effect, a commercial monopoly. Closed out of the RCA lode, Westinghouse established the first regular broadcast station, Pittsburgh's KDKA, and marketed the single-unit radio receiver it had developed for the army. Thus was a consumer market opened for radio equipment, and a listening audience for broadcasting...
...Fahrenheit degrees below zero at which all molecular activity ceases. Nothing moves. Everyone has sat through films that deserved an AZ rating. It is disappointing that Peter Fonda of Easy Rider fame should have produced one. The Hired Hand is pointless, virtually plotless, all but motionless and a lode...
...York Times last week found itself in the curious position of reporting and discussing at great length its own role in the controversy over the Pentagon papers. "I feel miserable," said Times Managing Editor A.M. Rosenthal as he watched other papers print parts of the Pentagon mother lode that the Times had polished into an eight-day presentation totalling 250,000 words. "A Xerox machine," he grumbled, "is the only self-breeding mechanical contrivance...