Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mariner 6, before speeding behind Mars en route to an orbit around the sun. The pictures have all but ended the old controversy about the so-called Martian canals. The "canals" are not distinct linear features laid out by intelligent beings, as some scientists once believed, but apparently rough, uneven splotches that lose their geometric-looking form on closer examination. Far from being the outpost of an advanced civilization, Mars more and more seems to be something of a primordial version of the earth, as it might have been billions of years ago. Says Caltech Geologist Robert Sharp...
...Rough Innings. Mrs. Gera's fascination with baseball goes back three decades. At the age of eight, in her tiny home town of Indiana, Pa., she discovered that she could outhit the boys on the block. "Since that time baseball has been my main interest," she says. When she was twelve she moved to Queens and later became a secretary. But she devoted long evening hours to teaching neighborhood kids the fundamentals of baseball and was soon putting on hitting exhibitions for charity with such big-league stars as Roger Maris and Sid Gordon...
...Queens, she met her future husband, Photographer Steven Gera. Their courtship had some rough innings. "While we were dating, he wanted to go dancing or to a movie, the normal things," says the 5-ft. 2-in. brunette. "I wouldn't go out unless we went to Rockaway Park where I could throw and hit baseballs at the concession stands." The couple finally made it to the altar, but marriage did not diminish Bernice's enthusiasm for baseball. "One night in 1967," she says, "I awoke at 2:30 a.m. with an idea. Why not umpire...
...Europe's royal dynasties. Almost all of them come from the rocky Greek islands. The neighboring islands of Chios and Inoussai, for example, have produced such shipping families as Lemos, Kulukundis, Pateras, Carras, Papalios-who collectively own more than one-third of Greek shipping. Nothing grows on these rough islands, and the only way to make a living is to go to sea. Traditionally, boys begin as sailors and send their wages back to the island to feed the family. If enough sons go to sea, the family may eventually save enough money to buy an old boat...
...native tradition, "were yellow, very big, with long arms. They came by boat from a land that lies beyond America." It was the yellow men, Maziere believes, who created the first stone giants, the finest sculptures on the island. In the second epoch, which in Maziere's rough chronology began in the 13th century, the island was invaded by Polynesians who struggled for supremacy until, at the start of the third epoch, they succeeded in incinerating the yellow men in a volcanic ravine. In the third epoch, the Polynesians continued to make modi in a degenerate style, until...