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Although the moon has lately been giving up many of its ancient secrets to prying spacecraft, it has clung stubbornly to one-the genesis of its own existence as an earth satellite. With monotonous regularity, scientists have punched holes in theories that the moon was torn, Eve-like, from the earth's side; that the earth and moon condensed simultaneously, as neighbors, from the same blob of primordial dust; or that the moon was a planetary interloper accidentally captured by the earth's gravity. Says Nobel Laureate Chemist Harold Urey: "All explanations for the origin of the moon...
...history than anyone had heretofore believed- and led to the evolution of life itself. Terrestrial gravity had an even more spectacular effect on the newly arrived moon. In addition to tidal heating and volcanic activity on the moon as it approached perigee, great chunks may well have been torn from the lunar surface-only to fall back onto the moon near apogee, when the earth's gravitational force was lessened. This recurring bombardment could account for the moon's pock-marked face. Singer calculates that within a few thousand years after the encounter, the moon's orbit...
...York Public Library riding roller skates and dumbwaiters, shuttling between a fast-working actress (Elizabeth Hartman) and a sloe-eyed librarian (Karen Black), wonder- ing which chick to turn. Off duty, he gets knocked about by a Wylie Mom and a wily Dad (Geraldine Page and Rip Torn). In the last reel the boy grows up, puts down his parents and stomps off to his librarian love...
...great many of those faced with the prospect of military duty find it hard to square performance of that duty with concepts of personal integrity and conscience. Even more are torn by reluctance to participate in a war whose toll in property and life keeps escalating, but about whose purpose and value to the United States they remain unclear...
...hospital bed and said,"Hello-how are you?" He probably could have said more, but the doctors wouldn't let him try, lest he damage the delicate needlework in his throat. For Lopata had no larynx or vocal cords. These were removed in October after they had been torn to shreds by fragments from a Viet Cong grenade. What he had was a reconstructed throat, the first of its kind in the U.S. and probably in the world...