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Photographs taken through the great telescope at California's Lick Observatory, and released last week, reveal the moon's pockmarked crust in astonishing detail (see cut). Forbidding mountains loom above broad valleys and sharply defined crevasses, just as they will appear to approaching astronauts. But for all their clarity, the pictures leave a vital question unanswered. What is the moon actually made...
...knitted outerwear. Two months ago, Kittay moved into women's undergarments, bought Flexees International, which makes girdles, bras and swim suits. Using prudent aggression, Kittay hopes eventually to lift B.V.D. to first place from its present fourth place in men's underwear, behind Fruit of the Loom, Cooper's and Hanes. For next to nothing else, Sol Kittay likes B.V.D. best...
Chronicles of society always run the same risk. To be successful they must contain a wealth of imaginative surface detail; otherwise the fundamental emptiness of high society--its weary monotony and mindless glitter--loom oppressively. Nilsson fails to achieve any sort of dash or verve; he also cheats us by pretending to human insights where there are none...
Much opposition and little chance of quick success loom for Saxon's major proposals, which require congressional approval. But where new department regulations alone will suffice, Saxon promises fast action. He will demand regular financial reporting by national banks in what he sees as a way to increase shareholder confidence, will allow stock option plans for bankers to attract high-caliber executives, and relax restrictions on stock dividends...
...takes a weaver a month to fill in one square yard of tapestry. First a set of colorless threads called the warp is strung on the loom to serve as the foundation for weaving. The other set of threads, the colored weft, is all that is visible in the finished tapestry. The weft passes over and under the warp; each time a different colored area is indicated in the cartoon, a bobbin holding a different colored thread must be used, and the ends of the different colored threads must be tied to hold the tapestry together. A tapestry is made...