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Tired, hot and irritable, the pilgrims stopped off for a two-day rest at the ancient beauty spot of Hangchow, where pagodas rim lovely West Lake, in which gold carp come at a visitor's clap. Swimming in a pool in the grounds of a former Buddhist temple, gliding over the lake, the delegation seemed oblivious of the landing craft they had seen assembled along Shanghai's Whangpoo River, and of the Peking radio's loud declaration that China intended to liberate Formosa forthwith-and would "brook no U.S. occupation, no U.N. trusteeship, no neutralization...
...Dunlop, Sir Eric and Sir George swung the ax ruthlessly, began to diversify. They bought more wheel and rim plants, started making all kinds of rubber goods, from flooring to hot water bottles, and took over Charles Macintosh & Co., of raincoat fame. In 1928 Sir George hired his son, George Beharrell. who rose to a directorship...
...some cases, he says, such reefs were raised above the water, probably by changes of sea level because of ice ages, to become full-fledged islands. Then furious tropical rain went to work on the porous coral, dissolving it. The center of the island eroded faster than the rim, particularly if it had picked up a layer of soil. Reason: the soil contributed acids that attacked the limestone...
...soft coral of the rim, by alternate solution and recrystallization, was "casehardened" into solid rock that eventually stood in a high wall around most of the island. Then after the once-flat coral reef had eroded into a saucer, MacNeil believes, the sea rose again and flooded the low center. When the sea rose high enough, more coral grew on the high rim, building it up and forming the familiar shape of an atoll...
Geologist MacNeil is prepared to offer two kinds of evidence to support his stand. First, there are actually many islands, standing well above sea level, whose high rims and comparatively low centers could very well have been formed by the process he describes. Second, and even more convincing, the theory has survived a realistic laboratory test. A block of limestone, he reports, sprayed with dilute hydrochloric acid to approximate the effect of long-continued rain, erodes into a shallow saucer with a raised rim...