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...moon-the well-defined crater Aristarchus, 27 miles in diameter. Both men were thoroughly familiar with the crater and its vicinity; Greenacre could hardly believe his eyes when he saw two bright red spots looming to the northwest and a third just inside the crater's rim. "I had the impression that I was looking into a large, polished gem ruby," he says...
...look, runs the company in tandem with President Russell De Young, 54, an up-from-the-ranks production expert who is heir apparent. "It was like getting the first olive out of the bottle," says Thomas. "Doing research on tires, we found a better way to make a tire rim. We made tires for planes, and our testing led us into airplane brakes, airplane wheels and de-icing systems. Our research in rubber led us to all kinds of new substances, like films...
Reach for Glory. In one of the opening scenes, a band of British schoolboys, evacuees from the London blitz, stand panting on the rim of a precipice above a roiling sea. The victim of their chase, someone's pet cat, has just plunged to death on the rocks below-and perceptive viewers will know from their boyish faces that by the end of the film the cat-chasers will be demanding a real human victim...
...Thus the rim of nations that surround the vast mainland of China...
...Mountain Park, an untouched 11,300 acres, nearly half the size of Paris, within the city limits of Los Angeles, Pereira's design would relegate the automobile to a circular rim-road linking ten villages that cling like jewels to the slopes. To keep even this traffic to a minimum, he suggests monorail and funicular transportation and several heliports for quick, easy access to other parts of the city. Within the villages themselves, everything would be so cozily clustered that the common way of going shopping, or to school, or to sports, or to work (in the light industries...