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...Viet Nam and the violence in U.S. cities, confused by simultaneous demands for retrenchment and vast new spending programs, threatened with higher taxes and still higher deficits, the American public is in a restive, unpredictable mood. Its distemper infects an already cantankerous Congress, heightening the impression of drift and disarray in the nation's capital. In times past, the one unifying force in such a period of malaise has been the presidency. Yet Lyndon Johnson seems strangely insulated from his countrymen's doubts and fears...
Were all continents once snuggled together in a mammoth land mass surrounded by a single shimmering sea? Did the continents begin to drift apart some 200 million years ago? Some scientists believe so, and many recent findings support them. This month still more compelling evidence of continental drift was reported by U.S. and Brazilian geologists. Their principal finding was that two highly distinctive adjacent geological areas on the Atlantic coast of Africa match perfectly with a pair of rock regions located along Brazil's northeast coast...
...discovery provides important support for the continental-drift theory. Among other recent evidence is the finding that the ocean floor is patterned with belts of rock magnetized in opposite directions. Recent studies indicate that the earth's magnetic field has reversed at least nine times in the past 3,600,000 years. Thus the belts provide a dependable time map that shows the effects of the reversing magnetic fields of the earth as the ocean floor expanded. This study also shows that the ocean floor is spreading at about the rate of two centimeters a year-which would just...
...this evidence is quite conclusive," says Hurley. "It's very difficult to argue against it. It looks as though opposition to the continental-drift theory is dying...
Coal, to be sure, is back in the red, partly because the government's deflationary "squeeze" has postponed a needed price increase, partly because a slow drift of workers away from the mines has caused a dip in production. Hoping to encourage remaining workers to move to more productive mines, Robens has begun an imaginative all-expense-paid "pick-your-pit" program. He sneers at competition from other fuels, recently dismissed the promise of North Sea gas as merely "an old flame tarted up in a miniburner." Such bravado delights Britons, even if few believe the lord...