680 School Science and Mathematics

PLATE II(A) Locate and name two "mares."(B) Locate two craters with two nearly parallel rays extending S of E.(C) Locate Gutenberg�a large crater with a medium-size crater breaking its

northeast crater wall.(D) Locate pear-shaped crater named after an Italian scientist who discov-

ered one type of barometer.

PLATE III(A) Locate two "mares."(B) Find two adjoining craters which resemble a "snowman" and named for

an American statesman and scientist.(C) Locate a small crater near the edge of one of "mares" which was named

after a religious reformer.(D) Locate a large crater with curved terraced walls on the interior, a medium-

small crater near center and a medium-small crater centered on rim.

HOVERCAR PROPOSED FOR RAPID TRANSITPassengers may someday be able to travel from New York to Washington in an

hour, or from Pittsburgh to Cleveland in half an hour without ever getting morethan a few feet off the ground.A hovercar, designed to carry 600 passengers at speeds of 200 to 300 miles per

hour between cities up to 500 miles apart, is a new British proposal for futurerapid intercity transit. The hovercar is a land version of the British hovercraft, theair-cushioned vehicle which has shown promise in recent tests on heavy seas. Thehovercraft will soon be used in commercial ferry service in Great Britain.A prototype of the land-based vehicle is likely to be built within the next few

years, reports A.F.A. Hassall of the British Technical Service Corporation inGreat Britain.The proposed vehicle would run on an elevated track and would be powered by

an electric motor or pusher air propellers. Looking something like a caterpillarwith windows, the vehicle would weight 140 tons and would be supported as wellas guided by air cushions. Its route between cities would be relatively straightbecause of its high speed.

Since all of the machinery would be in the rear, the "smooth and quiet opera-tion of this craft should appeal to passengers," Mr. Hassall reports.

PROCESS MAY PUT SCRAP BACK IN STEEL MILLSSteel scrap, now cluttering up many of the nation^ roadsides, may soon find its

way back into the steel mills as a result of a new copper-removing process.Junk, consisting mostly of old autos and major home applicances, has been

piling up and up across the country. Most of it accumulates because the cost ofseparating and sorting out the various materials too often exceeds the value of thescrap as a reusable raw material.With the new process, called controlled high-temperature incineration, it may

soon be possible to burn off thin coatings and attachments of copper which often"poison" the steel scrap, making it unfit as a raw material. In a recent experimentconducted by the Department of the Interiors Bureau of Mines, layers of copperwere oxidized entirely in a laboratory-scale furnace. They formed a loose, scalymaterial that fell off easily, leaving the steel free of surface contamination.Although tests so far have shown the process to be effective, the Bureau cautionedthat further study�including commercial scale testing�will be necessary toevaluate the method for efficiency and economy.