Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 (TIME, Jan. 5, 1970). Millions of years after leaving the ridges, the material reaches the extremely deep trenches that lie just off several of the continental coasts. There it plunges back into the earth...
...same seven men and five women who convicted the four of first-degree murder and conspiracy Jan. 25 chose the death penalty over the only alternative, life imprisonment...
This week the Monthly and Fledgling Editor Charles Peters will receive a George Polk award for an article revealing Army-intelligence surveillance of U.S. civilians involved in protests and political activity. The Jan. 1970 article bore other significant fruit: the congressional hearings held before Senator Sam Ervin Jr. (see THE NATION). Of perhaps greater long-range importance to the Monthly's future is that it is being noticed where it matters. It is must reading at the White House, on Capitol Hill and elsewhere in the Government. The praise of NBC's John Chancellor, former director...
...blameless victim's right to collect for pain and suffering. No-fault legislation has been introduced in 26 states; lawyers and insurance men so far have been able to prevent its passage in 25. In Massachusetts, where a limited form of no-fault coverage went into effect Jan. 1, results seem promising. During the first two months, bodily injury reports to the state motor vehicle bureau dropped by 50%, indicating to supporters of the plan that motorists are making fewer false claims. Trial lawyers, however, have sued to have the whole scheme declared unconstitutional, because it makes damages...
...month before Kissingers tenure ended last Jan. 20, the Government Department unanimously voted an expression of hope that he would return, and decided to hold vacant his professorship for at least a year...