Word: continente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adults may disapprove, but today's young Western Europeans, from 25 on down, represent something new and promising on the crosspatch old face of the Continent. Growing up in the aftermath of World War II, they have scant interest in the traditional rivalries that fueled it, are subtly but...
"Our Americans." Mingling on the dance floor of the Whisky a Gogo at Cannes or in a bull session at the University of Geneva (where less than half the students are Swiss), the new Europeans look alike, regardless of nationality. And they look quite unlike their parents. Middle-aged Germans...
Ur-Continent. Lamont men think the cracks may be proof that the continents indeed drifted away from each other, and are still drifting. Dr. Ewing recalled a theory of Venig Meinesz, who suggested that the early earth may have lacked the dense central core that it has today. Its hot...
Later, according to Meinesz, the earth formed a dense core that stopped the single-cell circulation. Then, the molten inner material was forced to circulate in smaller cells which reached the surface in several places. This spelled trouble for the single continent. One of the streams of material rose beneath...
The swift spread of stock ownership is even more striking on the Continent. In West Germany, the Adenauer government is plowing ahead with its plan to "reprivatize" a $1 billion industrial empire inherited from the Nazis. Last spring the government sold the giant Preussag mining combine to 216,000 new...