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...formed. Paleomagnetic studies of lunar rock indicate that the moon once had an unexpectedly strong magnetic field-and thus a large molten iron core. Yet equally valid data suggest that a core of significant size could not have existed. Even the ages of the rocks present new problems. The oldest specimens show that the moon's surface underwent a violent event about 3.9 billion years ago that remelted them, but scientists are still debating what might have caused that cataclysm...
...unorthodox autonomy that has ruffled some Pay Board bureaucrats and pooh-bahs from nonconstruction unions. Yet after 20 months of free-form negotiations, Committee Chairman John Dunlop, a Harvard dean who talks more like a pipe fitter than a pedagogue, can justifiably say of the nation's oldest wage-control apparatus: "We've done a lot better than I thought we would or most other people thought we would...
...frauds ever perpetrated." The scene of the dealings sweeps from New York to Luxembourg, the Bahamas, Puerto Rico and Costa Rica, and the characters in the story are a movie director's dream. Besides Vesco, who denies all charges, the 42 individual and corporate defendants include James Roosevelt-oldest son of the President who created the SEC-three lawyers from Wendell Willkie's old Wall Street firm and a gaggle of shadowy American, European and Latin financiers. Involved on the fringes of the case, though not named in the complaint, are Costa Rican President José ("Pepe") Figueres...
...prestige of Phi Delta Kappa the nation's oldest fraternity for educators, is on the wane as it continues to deny admission to women...
...look in my locker room and see bald old men, guys who have been through it-winners." That was the demand made by George Allen when he took over as coach of the Washington Redskins last year. After 19 trades involving 33 players, Allen got what he wanted: the oldest* and most experienced team in the National Football League-plus one. For all his attention to aging veterans, Allen wisely held on to Running Back Larry Brown, a Redskin holdover who in size (5 ft. 11 in., 195 Ibs.) and years (25) is a comparative toddler. The combination paid...