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Viking princes have claimed the sea as their domain since the days of Leif Ericson, and Norway's debonair Crown Prince Harold, 27, has salty blue in his veins. A deep-water sailor from the age of eight and Norway's kingpin skipper for the past decade, Harald was named by the Royal Yacht Club to represent his country in the 5.5-meter yacht class at the 1964 Olympics. Sailing the Fram III, designed by U.S. Master Draftsman Bill Luders, Harald is rated a good bet for a medal of some sort, but it had better be gold...
This week, in the magazine Science, Oceanographers David B. Ericson, Maurice Ewing and Goesta Wollin, of Columbia's Lament laboratory, offer new and promising evidence on all these questions. The oceanographic trio discovered that on sloping parts of the ocean bottom, earthquakes sometimes make the sediments "slump." Layers many feet thick are suddenly stripped away, leaving ancient sediments bare. If enough sediment is removed, the normally inaccessible base of the Pleistocene is left within reach of the oceanographers' tools...
...Ericson favors a theory that holds that during the ice age the sun went through periods in which it generated less heat. It recovered during the warm interglacial periods and melted most of the glacial ice. But there is no guarantee against another relapse. Modern man may be enjoying an interglacial period that may end at any time. When the chill returns, it will probably send many modern species to join the discoasters...
Between them, Grandfather Calder and his son Alexander Stirling decorated a good deal of Philadelphia. "The public use of sculpture is its highest field and goal," said Stirling Calder, and he turned out everything from a battle-dressed Leif Ericson, which the U.S. gave to Iceland, to George Washington on the arch in Manhattan's Washington Square. But the warm talent of the man is best seen in a statue of a chubby little boy that he called Man Cub. The stark-naked cub: the future mobilist...
...United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The Mating Machine, a comedy about a marriage bureau that operates by computer. The punch-card pairing: Diana Lynn and John Ericson...