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...travel through the earth, they are bent and reflected in complicated ways. Some waves move faster than others; some are absorbed entirely. By disentangling the jiggly lines made by instruments recording many earthquakes, seismologists have determined that the earth is formed of concentric layers of different materials, with iron-nickel at the center and stony oxides nearer the surface...
...could beat customers to the counters. As many as 150,000 breathless shoppers stormed the basement on the first day of a new sale-Boston fishermen and Harvard facultymen, U.S. Senators and Back Bay housewives. "Proper Bostonians," says a Filene vice president, "have always had an eye for a nickel...
...York Evening Mail police reporter, a sometime literary critic, since 1917 had worked with savage intensity on a huge (more than 9,000,000 words) "history of people." Unpublished and unfinished, Gould's An Oral History of Our Time was illegibly scribbled in hundreds of nickel notebooks, which he abandoned in the cellars and closets of his friends. Surviving on handouts and "air, selfesteem, cigarette butts, cowboy [black, no sugar] coffee, fried-egg sandwiches and ketchup," frail (5 ft. 4 in., about 95 Ibs.) Joe Gould sold (for a drink) entertainment (lectures, poetry recitals, epithets) to any willing...
...Degas and Van Gogh, sipped his brandy neat at the nearby Music Box bar. He read the local papers and, occasionally, The New Yorker. Sometimes he helped the building janitor make wiring repairs. Said one bemused neighbor later: "He didn't look as if he had a nickel. You'd never take...
...capital (bringing U.S. investment in Cuba, mostly in public utilities and sugar, to $750 million by last year). Projects completed or under way include the island's first steel plant ($16 million), two tire factories, new oil-refining facilities ($70 million), expansion of the U.S. Government-owned nickel plant at Nicaro ($37 million). The boom shows no sign of slackening. Planned for the future: a $147 million expansion program by a subsidiary of American & Foreign Power Co.. a $75 million nickel-mining operation by a Freeport Sulphur Co. subsidiary. Even tourism, one of Cuba's three...