Word: moons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government has been doing all it can to turn Sun Moon Lake into an international resort. They are finishing a $10 million Buddhist temple and plan a new highway to encircle the lake. There are already several minor temples around the lake. By climbing 400 steps up a mountainside, and 200 more inside one pagoda, one can get a view of the entire area. It is almost as breathtaking as the climb...
...MOON LAKE is the most beautiful resort on Taiwan. It is two and one half hours by train from Taipei to Laichung, and then another 90 minutes by bus past the farmers and water buffalo, past the hilly country, with their terraced scars of rice paddies and graves, and into the mountains, to the reservoir that was created by joining two lakes...
...commercialization of this once sacred area, the native Formosans, once disdainful of modern ways, have sold out. Island-wide they are discriminated against economically and educationally. At Sun-Moon Lake they live in a small village on the route of boat tours. For $3.00 NT (7 1/2 cents) one of the girls, dressed in "native garb"-not unlike a Halloween costume from Woolworth's-will post with tourists for photos...
...earlier film), but has significantly less grain and better color reproduction. The gamble worked. The record 3,800 frames that were shot by the astronauts with their 70-mm. Hasselblads contained hardly a flawed exposure. What is more, even after being exposed to the vacuum of the moon, only a few of the 165 to 170 frames in each film pack were damaged; there were barely visible hairline cracks in their thin chemical emulsion...
...photographic outpouring also pleased scientists at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, who found the pictures highly useful in initial identification and examination of the freshly arrived lunar rocks last week. Geochemist Paul Cast, the Manned Spacecraft Center's chief lunar scientist, noted, for example, that the closeups of the moon's surface were so clear that the orange soil showed up as a distinct band in the surrounding material. To Cast, those sharp color boundaries were another indication that the orange soil is young by lunar standards and a product of relatively recent volcanism on the moon...