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...earth come closest together, detected meteor impacts and shown that the moon's interior is in. deed unique: it "rings like a bell" when hit by a meteor. In contrast, the earth barely vibrates when it is struck. To Seismologist Gary Latham, the moon's resonance means that the upper 60 miles of the moon are composed of fragmented and jumbled rock. In addition, ) Apollo instruments have detected flows of electrically charged gases on the j moon's surface. Could these vapors have been trapped inside the moon and re, leased by the quakes? Such emissions may indicate that there...
...personnel, Richardson wisely retained Under Secretary John Veneman, Finch's best appointment, a health and welfare expert enjoying considerable respect on Capitol Hill. Otherwise, Richardson has transformed the departmental hierarchy. With the departure of James Farmer, the only black in the department's upper reaches, and outspoken Education Commissioner James Allen Jr., HEW has lost important symbols of social passion. But two of his appointees, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Laurence Lynn Jr. and the education commissioner, Sidney Marland Jr., have brought a new level of expertise and technocratic brilliance...
...solution to the noise problem plaguing city and suburban residents is to muffle the noisemakers. Los Angeles officials, however, are doing just the opposite: they are removing the people from the noise. After a series of angry antinoise demonstrations last summer by citizens who live in three middle-and upper-middle-class neighborhoods near Los Angeles International Airport, the city decided the best bet would be to buy up the homes and dispose of them. The cost of getting rid of 1,936 dwellings, some with swimming pools, will be $300 million, making this suburban removal project...
...only patients who ever appear on the course, the report notes, are there "to mow the greens and to caddy for the townspeople." In a spirited if not particularly s ' compassionate defense, Senator Pierre Mailhe, who represents Hautes-Pyrénées in the French upper house and also happens to be president of the golf club, declared last week: "It is not the club's job to teach the patients how to play golf. If they don't know the rudiments of the game, they'll carve up the greens...
Despite the fact that he knew most of the giants of modern art, Gerald never collected their pictures. He was in some ways very much his merchant father's son. Just as the elder Murphy introduced many appurtenances of upper-class European life to the U.S., Gerald acquainted his friends in France with such American contrivances as jazz records and waffle irons, portable bathhouses and inflatable rubber horses. Fitzgerald was so awed by Murphy's taste that he thought it must apply to everything and consulted him on literary matters. Gerald did not really respond to his friend...