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...different from anything found on earth. Martian organisms are likely to be microscopic in size. They would also have to be capable of extracting life-giving moisture from the planet's arid soil and atmosphere. Soffen believes they might do this by means of some sort of biological pump or natural siphon. "Martian critters have had billions of years to adapt," he explains. Somewhere in the process of evolution they must have had to face-and overcome-the need for water. "So what they developed is something called a water pump," theorizes Soffen. "They found a way to pump...
...other areas, Carter and Mondale will have to iron out some differences. The Senator, for example, favors breaking up vertically integrated oil companies (those that not only pump oil but ship it, refine it and retail it as well); the Governor does not. There is a mild difference on the right-to-work law: Mondale opposes it, while Carter does not, although he says that if Congress passed a bill changing the law he would sign it. Abortion is a more difficult subject for the two men. Carter supports the present system of legalized abortions, while saying that he would...
...GEICO's policies. State Farm had warned Wallach that it would carry out the agreement only if other insurers agreed to reinsure 34% of GEICO's policies by June 30. With State Farm out, it is now doubtful that other insurers can be persuaded to pump enough cash into GEICO to keep the company alive. GEICO directors are planning to offer 300,000 shares of senior preferred stock (which would have first priority on any future dividends) in case the $75 million convertible preferred issue does not sell, but who might want to buy the senior preferred...
...with Carter and the possibility of going to Washington with him. He wore blue jeans, and as he loped through his plantings of grapes and sweet potatoes and peach trees, he was trailed by two of his three daughters, Betsy, 17, and Kathy, 13. He pointed out the old pump house, soundproofed with egg cartons, where his son Charlie practices with his rock band, called Pumphouse & Company. "I would never pick up and leave Georgia," he said. "Besides, after I get through talking to Jimmy for an hour, I'm all talked...
...invasion of their original domain so persistently and successfully that we can even yet scarcely flatter ourselves that we have gained any very important advantage over them. If they want our crops, they still help themselves to them. If they wish the blood of our domestic animals, they pump it out of the veins of our cattle and our horses at their leisure and under our very eyes. If they choose to take up their abode with us, we cannot wholly keep them out of the houses we live in. We cannot even protect our very persons from their annoying...