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Massachusetts' Kennedy gambled his presidential hopes on being able to push through a labor reform bill to satisfy public outrage over Teamster scandals-without bringing down an A.F.L.-C.I.O. veto of his nomination at the convention. His bold plan put him into the center of the year's toughest scrap, bloodied him up a bit. His troubles started when the Senate toughened his original Kennedy Bill, got grim when the President pushed the far tougher Landrum-Griffin bill through the House. As chairman of the Senate-House conference to resolve the differences between the two measures, he fought...
Last week the other 88% found a sorely needed traffic cop: the new American College Testing Program, brainchild of President E. F. Lindquist of the Measurement Research Center at the State University of Iowa. Using Lindquist's whizbang $1,000,000 scoring machines (6,000 answer sheets an hour), ACT is aimed at Midwestern colleges that have finally started using entrance exams and want to maintain uniform standards...
Luders' coup came just as the Cruising Club rule committee was sitting down to the thankless task of considering revisions of the formula. Loudest gripe is against the designers' most successful postwar innovation-short, wide-beamed center-boarders that not only run faster off the wind but also drive relatively well into the wind matched against their deep-keeled rivals, who have to give them time under the formula. Most famous of these boats is Olin Stephens' Finisterre, which all but revolutionized ocean racing by winning the Bermuda race...
Crack in the Ridge. Lament's theory of the earth started taking shape several years ago when electronic depth-measuring equipment spotted a peculiar crack in the top of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the strange underwater mountain range that snakes down the center of the North and South Atlantic. Other explorations proved that the crack followed the ridge's top faithfully from north to south...
...still continuing, perhaps helped by an expansion of the earth. As Heezen sees it, the earth's crust breaks under this tension from within, forming a narrow, steep-sided rift that grows slowly wider. When the rift is about 60 miles wide, a fresh rift forms in its center. More rifts form as long as the tension continues, and their steep sides accumulate in a broad band of rugged terrain on both sides of the youngest rift. Since the tension is caused by rising molten material, this cracked-up region is apt to be somewhat elevated, like...