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...catastrophic. While only 800 head of cattle died in the eruption, another 80,000 were ordered slaughtered for immediate sale and a further 100,000 had to be moved to new pasture lands. Experts estimated that if there were further intense eruptions, it might take 20 years and $50 million to restore cattle raising to its pre-eruption level. At week's end, Arenal was rumbling ominously again and a team of volcanologists went to the scene from Washington, hopeful of determining the reason for the eruption and devising methods to prevent further blowoffs...
Their rough but unique closeup of Venus stems from 17 radar probes with NASA's 210-ft. dish antenna at Goldstone, Calif., last summer. At that time Venus was only 26 million miles from the earth. Since then, the scientists have been "drawing" a map by feeding their electronic findings into a computer. The result shows three blotches of extremely rough terrain, which Goldstein presumes are mountains, moonlike craters or fields of boulders...
...experience of nuclear physics." But Hahn's former coworker, Physicist Lise Meitner, had no such hesitation. Hearing of the experiment in exile in Sweden, she not only proclaimed that Hahn and Strassmann had achieved nuclear fission, but also calculated that each atom of uranium had released 20 million times as much energy as a comparable amount...
Second in size only to American Express and serving 10 million travelers a year through 420 offices around the world, Cook's saw its profits dawdle along during the early 1960s and by last year they were down to a mere $2.2 million on a turnover of $378 million. At least part of this sluggishness can be ascribed to the heavy hand of the British government, which has owned the company since 1948. Tory pressure is already building up in Parliament to return Cook's to private ownership...
...embryonic state this show seems better than average, it has to be because of Annal's magnificent sets, the best since Sean Kenny's for Oliver. Without much bulk, they suggest variety and expanse; without (I suspect) too much money, they suggest a show budgeted well over half a million dollars. The only unfortunate touches are a cartoon-blue ocean background in the lighthouse scene and a sickly dash of pink in the finale...