Word: sulphureous
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Seven oil-exploration contracts have been awarded to eager bidders, among them the U.S.'s Continental and Union Oil companies. Surveying for copper, Freeport Sulphur Co. recently found high-grade (4%) ore, and may invest up to $100 million to exploit it. International Nickel just got the go-ahead to start a $1,500,000 survey of nickel deposits on the island of Sulawesi (Celebes), and may invest $100 million. Bethlehem Steel has expressed interest in tin deposits, Boise Cascade in logging concessions. ITT agreed to build a satellite relay station near Djakarta at a cost...
...notes, Green recently discovered that in 1910 Astronomer R. W. Wood had taken telescopic shots of the moon through a filter that absorbed light with a wave length of 3,100 angstroms.When the pictures were developed, they showed black spots on the lunar surface. Because the light reflected from sulphur is absorbed at 3,100 angstroms, Wood reasoned, the black spots on the moon must be sulphur...
Repeating Wood's experiment with a filtered, 8-in. telescope, Green produced lunar pictures with black spots near the crater Aristarchus, from which astronomers have reported seeing a red glow-a possible sign of volcanic activity. To Geologist Green, it all makes sense. Sulphur is the most abundant of volcanic materials, he says, and wherever volcanic sulphur is found on earth, it is surrounded by hydrous rock...
Richard Rodney Bennett, arrived in Manhattan last week with a resounding bang. Within 24 hours the crack Opera Theater at the Juilliard School gave Bennett's The Mines of Sulphur its American premiere and at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Leonard Bernstein led the New York Philharmonic in his Symphony No. 2, which the orchestra had commissioned for its 125th anniversary year. Cinemagoers could also sample Bennett's style in his background score for Far from the Madding Crowd...
...audience--usually "Vietnam for 1000 years." Unfortunately, to the Vietnamese it came out sounding quite different--"The duck wants to lie down." The Viets would always howl at this and Mac thought he had really scored. Vietnamese, is their answer to Sun Valley, Palm Beach and White Sulphur Springs. Both sides regard it as one of the trophies in this war and consequently it sees little of the fighting. Saigon politicos and generals use it for their R & R and there are serious reports that VC higher-ups vacation here too. The unnatural quiet of this place almost becomes repugnant...