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...geology. According to a fairly well established theory, says Dr. Wolfson, the continents were once bunched together in two main masses: "Laurasia" (North America and Eurasia) and "Gondwana" (South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia), which were separated only by shallow seas (see map). During the Cretaceous period, 60 million years ago, both masses broke up and drifted slowly apart, their light granitic rocks floating on the heavy, plastic basalt that underlies both the oceans and the land...
...start a Paris edition of the Times, as rumor had it. The Times gave up that idea two months ago. Said Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger: "There's not going to be a Paris edition, there's not going to be a Berlin edition, there's not going to be a London edition, there's not going to be a Peking edition...
...just 13 years ago that the fatcat Republican Los Angeles Times moved into a handsome new six-story building. To protect the inlaid city-room floor, reporters were forbidden to smoke. Last week, directly behind this modern plant, another building was nearing completion -a ten-story white shaft with sea-green windows and an affluent look. Times reporters, who long ago broke down the no-smoking rule, were under fresh orders from the management: anybody who entered the new building would be fired on the spot...
...tough week all around for consumers. To pay for the new wage gains of John L. Lewis & Co., soft coal mines boosted their prices 4? to 50? a ton (retail equivalent: up to $1.25 a ton). Though hard coal producers had raised prices only a month ago to cover higher wages, one of the biggest of them, Lehigh Navigation Coal Co., Inc., raised the ante again, by as much as $1.10 a ton. A few hours after the rail-wage fight was settled (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the Interstate Commerce Commission gave 61 Eastern railroads permission to boost passenger fares...
Free or Strings? The second skirmish was over the word free, which FTC six months ago ruled out of ads if there were any strings at all to the offer. Last fortnight, FTC accused the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Literary Guild of America and four other book publishers of "false, misleading and deceptive" advertising because they offered "free" books to anyone who subscribed. Also wrong, charged FTC, were such terms as "bonus books'" and ''book dividends...