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...moon's flat maria (waterless "seas") are almost certainly covered with lava that poured out on the surface billions of years ago, said Astronomer Gerard Kuiper of Yerkes Observatory. In those days, Kuiper told the astronauts at Denver, the moon's interior was kept liquid by radioactivity, so any disturbance, such as a large meteor impact, was likely to cause an upwelling of lava. Kuiper thinks that smooth places on the maria will make firm landing spots for earth's spaceships...
...Atlantic, Christopher Martin had just given the order "Hard a-starboard'' ("the right bloody order," too, he later reflects) when a torpedo blew him clear off the bridge. He survives only to be engaged in a new rehearsal for death as the reluctant Robinson Crusoe of a waterless, naked, uninhabited rock...
...novelists visit the Molise region, which stretches, a withered Achilles tendon, above the heel of the Italian peninsula. Novelist Giose Rimanelli, who was born in this doomed place, has produced a bitter fictional report centered on a village that hangs like an abandoned bird's nest on a waterless escarpment between the Apennine Mountains and the Adriatic. His story, in translation at least, is as stiff, ill-fitting and yet appropriate as a peasant's wedding suit...
...disclaim that they are smothering the small fry among manufacturers and dealers. Protests General Electric Co. Executive Vice President Roy Johnson: "We don't believe that only the full-line appliance manufacturers will survive this race. Some small company may come up with a new feature, like a waterless machine that would vibrate the dirt out of clothes, and sweep the field...
...waterless wastes of Bechuanaland there is no happier word than pula, which means first "rain," and hence almost everything else that is good. Last week in a tidy suburban cottage outside London, a handsome, long-legged law student gazed at his comely,wife of eight years and murmured a heartfelt "Pula" Soon afterward he canceled his plans for a December bar examination, put his Croydon cottage up for sale and made plans to go home. "From now on," he said, "I'm going to be a farmer...