Word: core
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Working with 32-to 65-ft.-long sedimentary cores taken from the bottom of the North Pacific, Geologist Bruce Heezen and his associates at Columbia's Lamont Geological Observatory carefully examined each one, slice by slice, for traces of residual magnetism and remnants of primitive life. Because sediment has settled continuously on the ocean bottom for millions of years, each core represented both a magnetic and evolutionary calendar; each slice was a thin but significant record of a brief period in the earth's history...
There is no "political boss" in Cambridge, and the City's politics resembles a sputtering engine more than a smooth-operating machine. Each politician creates his own core of supporters, and each takes care of his own obligations. As a result, Cambridge politics is personalized politics, which exists on man-to-man contact and the trading of favors...
...Join the White Man?" Farmer, 46, who helped to found CORE on Gandhian principles of nonviolence in 1942, is now denounced for not condemning the war in Viet Nam when he was director, and the entire range of U.S. foreign policy is seen as a plot against the non-white races. "Obviously," says New York CORE Chairman Roy Innis, 31, "the Pax America of Johnson refers to white people and the interests of white people, not the world that is mostly nonwhite...
...voting-but only for discussion by twelve working groups. A dissent-proof plan, it seemed. But not quite. First, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNICK) boycotted the conference. Then the Congress of Racial Equality, grown more militant under new leaders, demanded that the conferees frame their own report. CORE National Director Floyd McKissick wanted a resolution demanding U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam, derided the conference as "rigged" by the Administration...
There was plenty of other dissent. Many delegates were dissatisfied with the lack of specific spending proposals and timetables in the council report. Ruth Turner, a CORE official from Cleveland, wanted a minimum of $8 billion for housing alone. Bill Russell, the professional basketball player, criticized big business for being seen little and heard less at the conference. "What good is education without jobs?" Russell said. "It is big business corporations that control good jobs." Five of the panels urged that the pending civil rights bill on juries and housing be broadened. Others proposed a federal program to upgrade local...