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Pictures by Earthlight. One after another, the pictures showed that Surveyor was standing on a broad, relatively level plain littered with pebbles as small as one-eighth of an inch in diameter and rocks that were more than a foot across. The terrain was pocked by an occasional small crater, and one picture clearly showed a hump on the horizon that is believed to be either a crater rim or a low hill. A view of one of Surveyor's feet showed that its impact had dented the surface a few inches, indicating to some scientists that the site...
...Manhattan last week to plan a Cardin boutique that opens next September at Bonwit Teller, he was sporting a three-button, single-breasted suit with extra-long coat and high-rising pleated side vents. Cardin also likes slacks with colored stripes up the side, flowered dinner jackets, four-inch-high collars and square hats. It is not, he insists, an Edwardian look: "I never look backward. I design for tomorrow. N'est-ce pas, Nicole...
...only a little Hebe who was brought up in the gutters of Brooklyn," Millionaire Joseph Herman Hirshhorn, 66, likes to say in moments of wry self-depreciation. But every inch that the 5-ft. 4-in. dynamo lacks in physical stature, he has more than made up for in wealth: his fortune, based on Canadian uranium, has grown to upwards of $100 million. Nor is there any gainsaying his voracious appetite for art. "I buy art almost every day," he says. "If I can't decide which of an artist's work, I buy them...
With a surface machined to within a tenth of an inch, the new dish will also greatly broaden the range of radio wavelengths which the telescope can detect...
McCrosky, lecturer on Astronomy, showed the television audience the equipment of the Smithsonian Institute which photographs the sky all night long every night. With cameras that can detect a six inch sphere as far away as the moon, they have never detected "anything we don't understand...