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...area of at least four towering volcanoes, some of which may still be showing signs of activity. They are dominated by gigantic Nix Olympica, with an upper rim estimated to be more than three times as tall as Mt. Everest, the earth's highest peak...
...lunar material was gathered at the beginning of the week during the third and final EVA (extravehicular activity) by Young and Duke on the plains of Descartes. With helpful navigational guidance from Houston, 240,000 miles away, the astronauts drove their $12 million moon cart to the very rim of a large feature called North Ray Crater, some three miles away from the lunar lander, Orion. As the rover's television camera followed them, they threaded their way down North Ray's steep slopes, going deeper into a large crater than any of the eight previous moon walkers...
...could depend on Frank Selvy to rim a last-second jumper from the corner and force the seventh playoff game into overtime--an overtime that the Los Angeles Lakers would...
...current champion of Roman monument perchers is Dante Ottaviani, 27, who last week set a city record by perching for seven days and seven nights on the rim of the Colosseum, 150 ft. above the cobblestones. A one-time petty criminal turned street peddler, Ottaviani was protesting the fact that the cops had confiscated his stock of transistor radios and cigarette lighters on the grounds that he did not have a proper license to sell them...
...form of sweaters?" He promptly commissioned four top British artists to design sweaters-and now, after a "nightmare" period devoted to making colors and patterns accurate, the work-of-art sweaters are selling at $96 apiece, each packed in a box with a stainless-steel rim, polystyrene backing and a clear plastic front, so that they can be hung on a wall when not hung on an owner...