Word: marias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...side of the moon facing the earth. As a result the crust there would have been slightly squeezed and become thinner than that on the far side. Indeed, such an uneven distribution of crust was offered by University of Chicago Mineralogist Joseph Smith to explain the paucity of maria on the far side. These great lunar seas are believed to be vast upwellings of lava, perhaps from volcanic eruptions set off by the moon's collision with large asteroids. On the far side, where the crust is thicker, such impacts would have been less likely to penetrate the moon...
...scientists, in any case, agreed that the maria are probably quite alike, a view supported by the first Russian scientist to attend a NASA moon conference. Reporting on the 3 oz. of dust gathered last September from the Sea of Fertility by the automated Soviet moon probe, Luna 16, Geochemist Aleksandr Vinogradov indicated that the dark gray samples were very similar to the American lunar specimens from the Ocean of Storms and the Sea of Tranquility, Apollo 11 's landing site. He elicited even greater interest with his revelation that the Russians are planning still more sophisticated unmanned retrievers...
...Rural Indians, near San Maria volcano, in Quetzaltenango...
...Roman inspector (Gian Maria Volonte) is a remorseless homicide cop who also happens to be a homicidal psychopath. The sexual subcurrents of his sickness are brought out by his mistress (Florinda Bolkan), who is entranced by his bloody profession. The film opens on his last visit to her. "How will you kill me this time?" she coquettishly asks. "I'll cut your throat," he replies. And so he does, as they make love. With deliberate clumsiness, he steals her jewelry (but not her 300,000 lire), leaves his fingerprints in the shower and bloody shoeprints. Then he takes...
...Faculty Committee of Phillips Brooks House? (Members of the Faculty Committee: President Mary I. Bunting, Dr. Dana Farnsworth, Dr. George W. Goethals, Mr. Edward S. Gruson, Professor Doris Kearns, Professor Edward L. Keenan, Jr., Dr. James H. Laue, Dean Ernest R. May, Rev. Charles P. Price, Miss Maria Seferi, Mrs. Mona Serageldin, Dean Theodore Sizer, Dean George B. Thomas, Dean Charles P. Whitlock.) Do their relationships to the central committee officers and cabinet members of P.B.H.A. need further definition? How does the Association keep in touch with the undergraduate college...