Word: driftings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rich tradition of experimental colleges that start with high ideals but soon drift into dogmatism, anarchy or extinction. Massachusetts' seven-month-old Hampshire College hopes to be different. Created by the academic establishment, which vows to make it work, the school is thriving as a model of well-planned radicalism...
Continental Drift. The new idea stems from discoveries that in the past few years have drastically revised classical geophysical theories. Although it was once thought that the ocean floor has remained stationary and relatively unchanged for billions of years, scientists are now certain that it is continually spreading and being renewed with fresh material welling up from a 47,000-mile-long chain of volcanically active undersea ridges. As this new rock from deep within the earth's mantle moves slowly away from the mid-ocean ridges, it carries the continents along, thereby providing the mechanism for continental drift...
Finally, he is unsure how to end his film and lets it drift off in surrealism. Though his contempt for capitalism is apparent, Saura is unwilling to commit himself to a concrete alternative. He scores point after political point, but he stops his argument short of its finish. The film is a proof without a conclusion. And the problem is not in Saura's treatment but implicit in the subject itself. Capitalism is a system that yet awaits its formal conclusion, and while Saura marks time until the fall, he can only offer a pessimism cloaked in satire...
...reflection from the moon. By precisely clocking the round-trip time of each short burst of light-about 2½ seconds-scientists have been able to measure the distance between earth and moon to within six inches or less. They are gathering invaluable data on such puzzles as the drift of continents, the earth's polar wobble and possible changes in the force of gravity. At the Mount Hopkins station, scientists are tracking reflector-equipped earth satellites and measuring pollutants in the upper atmosphere...
...seaport of Kep into the southern part of South Viet Nam. Northwest of Saigon in Tay Ninh province, 18,000 ARVN armored cavalrymen surged over the border into the Parrot's Beak and the Fishhook. Both sanctuaries were cleared out last spring, but now Communist troops were beginning to drift back...