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...involved, notably a concept called elastic deformation, in which moving land masses snag against each other and force some of the earth's crust to roll up like a rug pushed against a wall. In this particular case, the snag is apparently occurring along a dogleg bend in the San Andreas Fault in the vicinity of the Palmdale Bulge. There the two huge plates, which normally grind past each other in opposite directions, appear to be locked together, causing a buildup of tremendous strain that eventually must be released in one or more quakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Exploring an Ominous Bulge | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...hard to argue that Germans have a greater genetic predisposition to violence than other peoples. These days most Germans are careful to avoid any aggressive display. Says a foreign ministry official: "We know we're the most powerful country in Western Europe. But we must bend over backward not to use that power." In fact, the terrorist activity is a lefthanded tribute to democratic institutions. A repressive society would not have tolerated the intellectual dissent that led to terrorism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Terrorism: Why West Germany? | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

McLaughlin only coached at Fordham one season before departing with Phelps to Notre Dame, where he coached six years before coming to Cambridge. The Fighting Irish went 6-20 McLaughlin's first year in South Bend, but the next year they beat Marquette in the NIT finals. During 1973-74 the Irish snapped UCLA's 81-game winning streak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Acquaintance | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

...like Borge to share a stage, but he can be marvelously droll in bickering with the competition. Over his squirming body, he permits the silky-tongued Marylyn Mulvey to sing "Caro nome"-between his mischievous interruptions. Several times he tartly forbids her to touch the piano. Sopranos bend pianos, he tells the audience, by leaning against them. At one point he confides that the singular of Portuguese is Portugoose. For the singular Borge there is no known plural. - T.E.K...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Darling Dane | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

Ball's mulish and ruthless uses of power are legend. Rather than bend to union demands in 1963, he took a nine-year strike on the Florida East Coast Railway. He ran the line with scab labor, and managers trimmed featherbedded jobs and produced the road's first profits since World War II. Another time, when Ball decided that the taxes of several Florida counties were too high, he simply paid half the bill; only Dade County had the temerity to sue for the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: No Rest at 89 | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

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