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The new theory, outlined by the University of Toronto's J. Tuzo Wilson, fits in neatly with the tenets of the new geology. As North America slowly crept westward away from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Wilson says, the west coast of the continent eventually met up with another segment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Why the West Is Wild | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

THE SETTING: THE HALL OF MIRRORS, VERSAILLES, JANUARY 1871: In the palace of the Bourbons, the rulers of Germany's 25 independent and quarrelsome states gather to savor the fruits of their victory over France's armies. The Franco-Prussian War has given the Germans something that eluded them for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: On the Road to a New Reality | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

Although the U.S. has been preoccupied for nearly a decade with Indochina and the Middle East, Europe is still the crucial continent, the arena where the great dangers and opportunities exist and where the ultimate balance between the U.S. and the Soviet Union may well be decided. Neither Washington nor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: On the Road to a New Reality | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

Brandt has nevertheless supported the Soviet call for the conference, as have several other nations and most of the Continent's neutrals. But Brandt acknowledges the great danger of Western Europe's possible "Finlandization" ?meaning that without a U.S. military presence, Soviet influence could become so strong that Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: On the Road to a New Reality | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

It will clearly take stronger presidential leadership to curb a growing feeling in the U.S. that Europe is fat and prosperous enough to protect itself. In the view of all Western European leaders, a swift, major, unilateral U.S. troop cutback?anything under the present 185,000 G.I.s in West Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: On the Road to a New Reality | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

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