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...Three sailors -- and $4 million worth of nonnuclear missiles -- on the U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower were washed away by heavy seas near Cape Hatteras; only two of the men were recovered...
...assumed that it will do so again. But just where and when will the next big break occur? Here scientists are beginning to make headway. Geophysicist Wayne Thatcher of the USGS notes that the 1906 quake ruptured a 260-mile-long section of the San Andreas, extending from Cape Mendocino to San Juan Bautista. But the plate movement along the southern portion of the rupture was minor compared with the far greater movement in the north. To Christopher Scholz of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, this meant one thing: the southern section of the quake zone had retained...
...textures of the civilization and tincture its memory: Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald, an image so raw and shocking, subsides at last into the ecology of memory where we also find thousands of other oddments from the time -- John John saluting at the funeral, Jack and Jackie on Cape Cod, who knows? -- bright shards that stimulate old feelings (ghost pangs, ghost tendernesses, wistfulness) but not thought really. The shocks turn into dreams. The memory of such pictures, flipped through like a disordered Rolodex, makes at last a cultural tapestry, an inventory of the kind that brothers and sisters...
Vision, delights to the eyes, the narcissism of seeing and being seen guides those who converge on Boston for the Head. People preen, primp, look, laugh and wave at old friends, newly discovered even if the name ("Cape Cod, right?") escapes. But not too self-conscious, now. Look as if you belong here. Smile...
Rumors swirled for years that Pretoria was about to free the Rivonia prisoners, but many seasons of hard labor in the limestone quarries on Robben Island taught Sisulu, now 77, not to expect too much. During a visit to Cape Town's Pollsmoor Prison last Tuesday, his wife Albertina asked Sisulu what he thought about renewed speculation that his freedom was imminent. "No," he scoffed. "Let's just wait...