Word: marias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playing Hooky. Elaine, born in Philadelphia, is the daughter of Yiddish Actor Jack Berlin. She began by playing little boys in Yiddish plays, later quit high school in Los Angeles and studied acting with the late Maria Ouspenskaya. To eat, she picked up such odd jobs as private detective, spieler for a sidewalk photographer. Then she heard "you could go to the University of Chicago without going to high school...
Scandal in Rio. The scandal reached all the way back to Rio. Politically ambitious Finance Minister José Maria Alkmim announced a special government advance of $6,000 to afflicted towns -and gave that amount to every municipality in his own green state of Minas Gerais. In Rio Grande do Norte, Carlos Cabras, who has been in charge of building a long-range irrigation project for the past two years, confessed that $1,000,000 had been looted and said part of it had gone for payoffs to a Senator and two Deputies in Kubitschek's own party...
...Navy plane whisked the young prince from Norfolk to Washington, where he was met at the airport by a full turnout from the Spanish embassy, headed by Royalist Ambassador Joseé Maria de Areilza. Also on hand was Newshen Win-zola McLendon of the Washington Post and Times Herald, who was all in a dither as she asked Juan Carlos what he thought of American girls. "Oh, very pretty," replied the prince gallantly. Winzola gushed later that his blue-green eyes had not only a twinkle, but "the LONGEST, CURLIEST lashes...
...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...
...life, its exposed rock has been slowly turned into dust by bombardment of rays and particles from the sun and space. The dust, kept stirred up by the same agents that formed it, has flowed like a slow liquid into the moon's low places. So the maria, said Gold, are not filled with lava, but with dust, perhaps several miles deep. Gold suspects that the dust near the surface is still as fluffy as baby powder. He warned that an unwary spaceship that lands on a smooth lunar plain might disappear in dry quicksand...