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Letting their imaginations roam, the authors provide a vivid description of what might follow the catastrophic impact. As the comet's head, or nucleus, struck the earth's surface, tons of molten rock would be hurled thousands of miles, falling and hardening in tektite-like patterns far from the point of collision. At the same time, another spectacular event may well have occurred. The gases contained in the comet nucleus-particularly frozen ammonia and methane-would have spread through the atmosphere and the water, drastically changing the environment for primitive life. Then, in a swirling finale...
Hereford cattle graze on hardened marsh spits; flocks of egrets and herons roost on bleached dead oaks; pigs and white-tailed deer roam through sand dunes and forests filled with jungle-like vines. A sparkling white shoreline stretches...
...fashioned hedonism remains an attraction. "I'll roam until my book of traveler's checks gets down to the last leaf," said Viet Nam Veteran Steve Verich of Akron, Ohio, traveling in West Germany. "When I was in the jungle, I vowed that if I ever got out alive, I'd spend a long time in Europe-drinking the local brand and making it with all the chicks until I got my fill. Then I'd return home to do something constructive. But now my traveler's checks are nearly gone, and I still haven...
...Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church recently, a minister smilingly baptized a baby "In the name of the Father, the Holy Ghost, and Jesus Christ Superstar." Amazing Grace, Put Your Hand in the Hand and My Sweet Lord are top-40 hits, and Jesus-rock groups, most of them converts, roam the country under such names as Hope, Dove and The Joyful Noise...
...support sent the president by Mexican leaders. In conjunction with administration flag-waving, there have been stepped up military operations across the country. Along the well-travelled Cuernavaca-Mexico City Highway soldiers march with fixed bayonets. Armed searches at the toll stations have been frequent. Full dress military patrols roam the countryside in the state of Guerrero, famous as the home of Acapulco, while it remains under semi-martial...