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...issued public warnings and evacuated vulnerable areas. Buoyed by their rapid progress in forecasting, scientists are already talking about an even more exciting possibility: actually taming the more destructive convulsions of the earth. "We can't start next year," says Geologist Healy, "but it's not a Buck Rogers idea. Every step we've taken encourages...
...buck private in the Greek army, Banking Heir Alexander Andreadis, 30, serves in style. With Rome sweltering in 91° heat, Andreadis and his bride of three weeks, Shipping Heiress Christina Onassis, 24, turned up in Rome's most luxurious shopping district. After a stop at Valentino's dress shop, they adjourned to Gucci, where Christina bought several leather handbags, and to Battistoni, where Alexander picked out some very civilian silk shirts. Then the pair jumped back into their Rolls-Royce and drove off. "That's one of the problems with the Greek army," reflected a former...
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...contemporary Americans: self-reliance. It is a measure of our situation that a call for individual or even community action so often results, in fact, in no action at all. Whatever the problem, it is left for the Government to solve. Americans hesitate to acknowledge that perpetually passing the buck to Government may not indicate an enlightened concern with the plight of our fellow citizens so much as an easy way for an individual or a community...
Preus has had to buck a strong religious trend. Most mainstream U.S. Protestants-and even many Roman Catholics-nowadays tolerate a wide diversity of theological opinion, and until Preus' election in 1969, the Missouri...