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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Lunar Orbiter 5's strikingly clear wide-angle and telephoto pictures show, according to NASA scientists, is that the hidden-side scars do not differ markedly in number from those on the earth-oriented face. They only seem fresher and more numerous because the far side has not undergone the vast, more recent flooding of dark, possibly volcanic, material so evident on the near side. The disparity should prove a boon to scientists, since the result is that the moon's early history is that much more legible on the hidden side...
...TRIP process may well have wide applications in other areas of metallurgy. "We expect there will be an analogous series of alloys for titanium," says Zackay. "We just haven't had time to look for them." Titanium is used in jet aircraft, and although both engineers termed the idea of using TRIP-processed materials to prevent metal fatigue "pure speculation" at this point, it is not beyond the realm of possibility. Other conceivable uses of TRIP steel: storage tanks to withstand the super-coolness (as much as -450° F.) of liquid helium, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen; chemical-processing...
Accustomed to performing on a stage of brobdingnagian proportions (70 ft. wide by 78 ft. deep), the company practically had to be shoehorned into the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier at the Place des Arts, whose stage is about one-half as roomy. While seven translators repeated orders in Russian, English and French, workmen scurried about rolling up the backdrops to fit and putting up a tent to hold the overflow of the troupe's 3,000 costumes. Nonetheless, assured Chief Designer Vadim Rin-din, "the spectacle that will be seen here will be in no way inferior to that seen...
...work of some 150 experts and is aimed at interpreting church doctrine in the spirit of the recent Vatican Council. Written for adults, it breaks with the simplistic rote question-and-answer catechisms traditionally used for children. Instead, it is a sophisticated, often undogmatic book that frankly discusses a wide range of subjects, from homosexuals ("often hardworking people of high integrity") to Calvin ("a man possessed by the absolute majesty of God"), and even refers to "the passion for justice of the Marxists...
...longterm is not too important to us because we humans are short-term." He repeats the obvious: the key to quick gain is to use leverage-to multiply, as much as twentyfold, the purchasing power of each investment dollar. He speculates in the commodities market because it offers 1) wide price swings and 2) minuscule margins-the buyer puts down as little as 5% and borrows the rest...