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Cable Trouble. In a recent American Journal of Science, Bruce C. Heezen and Maurice Ewing of Columbia University buttress this theory with a neat bit of historical research. In 1929 a strong earthquake shook the continental shelf 450 miles east of Nova Scotia. It cut a whole sheaf of telegraph cables in a peculiar way. Six cables went out at the same time, but others did not fail until many hours later...
...Song, British Novelist Edward Grierson has carpentered a trimly joined plot, with Freudian underpinnings and a legalistic overlay, to describe the ugly events leading up to the fatal night in the little English town and the court battle that followed. Having disposed of the body, mother and son buttress the boy's plea of- self-defense by disposing of the dead man's reputation. Margaret threatens to tell all; but even she is finally persuaded that her brother's neck is worth more than her father's name, remains silent when testimony paints the dead...
...days and nights an army of volunteer floodfighters, under U.S. Army Engineers, swarmed to the levees to buttress their ramparts against "C-Hour" ("C" for crest). Flashboards (double wooden fences with earthen fill between) were thrown up to give the dikes more height. Trucks and bulldozers worked around the clock, pushing up secondary levees wherever the battering flood water weakened the primary wall...
William L. Shirer, noted commentator and author, attacked the conception that independent, rearmed Germany and Japan will buttress the position of the West in the current struggle with the Soviets. Various other aspects of American foreign policy bore the critical analysis of Dr. James Phinney Baxter, III, President of Williams College; Frederick L. Schuman, professor of Government at Williams; and John Crider, commentator and columnist, at the opening forum of the All-College Conference last night...
...route, through Nepal, leads to the southwest face. It was thoroughly reconnoitered by a British party last summer. Led by veteran Himalayaman Eric Shipton, the Britons climbed to a 20,000-ft. buttress on nearby Pumori for a glimpse of a new route. They found they could see right over the treacherous ice fall to the head of the Western Cwm,t about 2,500-ft. below the South Col* (see diagram). To Shipton it looked as if there was a direct route up to the 25,000-ft. mark on Lhotse, followed by a traverse to the South...