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Meanwhile on the left, the Labor opposition led by Harold Wilson dithers irresolutely, divided on economic policy and on Europe. The white-hot Wilson who fronted the technological challenge of his 1964 victory is a gray ash of his former self-and his credibility is as fragile. His is not the Cromwellian voice that might save the workers from the siren calls of industrial and political anarchy. No longer is there that "we are on our way" zest of ten years ago. Barring a hard-to-foresee miracle, there is a long, hot summer ahead for Britain...
Santorini's caldera, or crater, is five times the size of Krakatau's. Quarry operations have disclosed that the ash blanket at Santorini reached a depth of 160 feet as against a few inches at Krakatau. For these reasons and others, geologists assume that the Santorini explosion must have had three or four times the force of Krakatau's. Within a very brief span of time, apparently, Santorini released energy estimated to be equivalent to the blast from a 400-megaton nuclear bomb...
...bull's-eye right away," he boasts. "We struck at the heart of the most aristocratic quarter." Buildings standing two and three stories high, with 50-ft. street fronts, "French doors" and traces of balconies, were found still upright, protected by the dry volcanic ash that enveloped them before the final massive explosion. Upward of 3,500 ceramic pots and vases have been found, but no human or animal remains and no valuables. Marinates explains that the people of the town, warned of the impending disaster by earth tremors and ominous outpourings of ash and gases must have fled...
...Fasching season neared its end on Ash Wednesday this week, there were myriad theories. People variously and contradictorily blamed high prices, fear of a recession, prosperity-" skiing in the Alps and sunbathing in Tenerife is more -fun" -or the mildest winter in memory, central heating, and the popularity of dieting. Marlene Kriiger, probably West Germany's best-known astrologer, suggests that Fasching's decline was caused by "the interaction of Uranus with the Jupiter-Pluto square in the Aquarian age." Dr. Emil Vierlinger, a locally famed master of Fasching ceremonies, suggested that the generation gap might...
Those shrewd, buxom pillars of Ghanaian commerce, the market mammies, turned out by the thousands last week to celebrate the sudden, bloodless coup that had deposed the civilian government of Prime Minister Kofi Busia. Their faces powdered white with talcum and wood ash, the women carried placards supporting the military junta headed by Colonel Ignatius Acheampong and urging the execution of his enemies. One angry sign read CRUCIFY AFRICA, referring to General Akwasi Afrifa, a hero of the 1966 coup against Kwame Nkrumah who is now in prison, accused by the new government of trying to assassinate Acheampong and restore...