Word: rico
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ballpark, the crowds have evaporated, to be sure-attendance is down some 281,000 from last season-but why pay $2.25 to witness a foregone conclusion? On the other hand, the Phillies' losing trail has been strewn with heartfelt messages of encouragement from as far off as Puerto Rico and Hawaii. "Hang in there and fight," read one. "We have faith that you'll shake this thing yet," read another. Wading last week through a pile of such pep-talk mail. Manager Mauch shook his head in wonder. "I once thought everybody loved a winner," he said...
...boundary layer between the earth's crust and mantle by drilling off the coast of Mexico, so far has penetrated only ordinary, surface-type rocks. Last week, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution reported far better success with another method. From the fractured north wall of the Puerto Rico Trench, its research ship Chain has dredged up the first samples of "third layer" rock ever gathered...
...averaging 1 km. thick. Below it lies the third layer, which seismic waves have proved to be made of unusually heavy rock. The third layer is normally unreachable, but scientists making a seismic survey in 1959 got hints that it might be exposed on the sides of the Puerto Rico Trench. In 1960 Dr. Earl Hays of Woods Hole took photographs showing fractured rock on the trench's north wall...
Misplaced Pacific. To geophysicists, the Puerto Rico Trench is one of the most interesting places on earth. Lying north of Puerto Rico, it is something like the Grand Canyon sunk under three to four miles of water. Like other deep ocean trenches, it is believed to be a place where the earth's crust is sinking into the interior, perhaps carried down by slow, enormous currents in the plastic mantle. Since trenches are characteristic of the Pacific Ocean, where they abound, some geophysicists consider the Puerto Rico Trench a part of the Pacific that has bulged into the Atlantic...
...Spiegel out of Jebel Tubeiq. Recently at El Jafr, the company has moved prudently from water hole to water hole, will soon reach Petra, where, according to local legend, Moses struck the rock that gushed water. ¶ On Vieques, an island nine miles off the east coast of Puerto Rico, Director Peter Brook is doing a film version of William Golding's superb novel, Lord of the Flies, in which 30 boys, aged six to twelve, are stranded on a desert island without any adults. They elect a leader, explore the island, go fishing, and things move along...