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...June, requires the companies to dump stripped soil in places where it cannot slide down exposed mountainsides. After the coal has been extracted, the companies must refill their gouges in the earth, terrace and replant their access cuts and, under certain conditions, regrade the slope to its original contour. Kentucky thereby became the seventh state to impose similar controls on strip coal mining. The others: West Virginia, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland...
...dealer. Accessories are also grander. For an extra $495, a Cadillac buyer can get a combination heating-and-air-conditioning system that automatically maintains the temperature of his choice throughout the year; for another $141, his car will be upholstered in genuine leather. Continental offers individually adjustable contour seats and a powered trunk lid that is unlocked and opened with a dashboard control. More than 45% of Imperial customers order vinyl-covered roofs for an additional...
...when January rolls around and coliseums fill up with new craft and a thousand gadgets that have suddenly become sine qua non for sea farers, the amateur skipper realizes that his year-old, 40-ft. dreamboat is just a floating slum. Does Cap'n Jones have a Gentex contour-molded life jacket, guaranteed to turn the wearer face up in the water even if he is stunned or unconscious? A speedometer accurate to one one-hundredth of a knot? What about an unsinkable, watertight canvas bag, roomy enough to stow cameras, film, wallets, watches and jewelry? He certainly needs...
...biggest telescope, the moon looks flat. Because of its great distance, the sharpest irregularities on its surface show only because of the shadows that they cast in slanting sunlight. But the moon is more rugged than Afghanistan; when earthly astronauts land there, they will need the best possible contour maps to guide them through the precipitous mountains that hide just over the lunar horizon. Last week NASA's moon pioneers were beginning to plot their first explorations, using an entirely new set of maps made by the Army Corps of Engineers that shows the jagged surface in astonishing detail...
...bantam of a man. But he walked Pont-Aven's streets with a nautical swagger, his great jut of a nose tilted in the air, looking like an evangelist pirate captain. He spouted maxims: "A line is colour, since it can only be born from the contour of spaces," or "The ugly can be beautiful, the pretty, never." To his wife, who was supporting the five children at her family's home in Copenhagen, he sent periodic sermons defining his new position ("The difference between us is the difference between the mediocre and the creative...