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Some of Gemini's pictures of East Africa and the Middle East gave geologists a broad overview of rift-valley systems produced by faulting in the earth's crust. Other pictures, each encompassing hundreds of square miles, will be useful to oceanographers studying ocean depths, underwater formations and ice floes. By taking selective color shots, Gemini did far better than the Tiros weather satellites, which photograph indiscriminately and only in black and white...
Flood Tide of Plenty. That lesson has never been more conclusively demonstrated than in the summer of 1965. This month and next, despite three decades of heroic federal efforts to limit the land's insistent bounty, farmers from ocean to ocean and border to border will harvest the largest crop in the nation's history-1.4 billion bu. of wheat, up 7% from last year; 4.1 billion bu. of corn, up 15% ; 961 million bu. of oats, up 9% ; 624 million bu. of grain sorghum, up 27% ; 120 million tons of hay, up 3% ; 864 million...
...Over the ocean Over the blue Here's Gemini 5 singing...
...will carry many more instruments than the much smaller Gemini. With its farsighted cameras, radar and infra-red sensors, its crew will be able to make more accurate maps of the continents and ocean currents than now exist, forecast weather and survey crop conditions. The orbiting Air Force technicians will also perform telescopic studies of the planets, and investigate the proton showers and other radiation from the sun. But the most significant work will be for defense. MOL can be used to reconnoiter targets, detect nuclear blasts and spot missile firings. Already the Navy has asked the Air Force...
Seawall in the Street. North of the seaport of Valparaiso, two hills suddenly collapsed into mud, trapping a 700-passenger train between them. At Vina del Mar, seaside playground of rich Chileans, boiling waves hurled huge boulders from the seawall into the streets. Farther south near Valdivia, the naval ocean-going tug Janequeo was dashed against rocks and sank; 43 of 72 crewmen died...