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...then such is the increase in buying power that imports grow twice as fast. In the fourth quarter, they shot up 17½% and Commerce experts predict that performance will continue through 1966. As a result, the U.S. trade surplus-the excess of exports over imports-continues to melt, from $6.7 billion in 1964 to $4.8 billion in 1965 to its present annual rate of $4 billion. That surplus is what the U.S. must rely on to finance foreign aid and the cost of the Viet Nam war, both of which put hundreds of millions of dollars into hands across...
Waiting for the tide, Portuguese fishermen, with leathery faces, stand ready by their boats. The loading and packing house is brightly lighted inside, full of crates and tubs of ice (which couldn't possibly melt), and everywhere the odor, the aroma, of fish--cod, of course...
...determining melting points of iron (and all other substances that increase in volume as they melt), scientists have long used Lindemann's Law, a complicated mathematical formula describing the relationship between the melting temperature of a substance and the pressure upon it. But Geologist Kennedy was disturbed by the widely varying and apparently inaccurate results obtained when the law was applied at higher pressures. He decided that something was wrong...
...ever attacked," Ben-Gurion once asked him, admiring the sculpture, "where do you want us to hide your bronzes?" Rose didn't hesitate a minute. "Don't hide them," he said. "Melt them down into bullets...
Tombaugh believes that the canals are faults or fractures, several miles wide, in the Martian crust. Their darkening and fading may be caused, he says, by the intermittent escape of hot gases that melt a thin layer of frost and vegetation. The oases where the faults intersect, he speculates, are probably impact craters where moisture gathers and promotes the growth of moss or lichenlike plants hardy enough to withstand the harsh Martian climate...