Word: magnetically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Richard Nixon is banking that a future coalition of previously contending nations will act like a magnet, and that soon even irascible India will be drawn in for her own good. Nixon understands the world. "It's a street scene to him," Kissinger once said in admiration. "You talk of Saigon or Karachi or almost any place, and he has been there. He can see it and hear it and smell...
Every few aeons, the giant magnet of the earth reverses itself. North changes to South, and topsy metamorphoses into turvy. In a sense, that is what happened in Reykjavik when Bobby Fischer last week took the world chess title from Boris Spassky. Russia, chess master to the world for a generation, has been abruptly undone by an upstart. The U.S.S.R. has long instructed its citizens that in chess (as in all things) their strength was the strength of ten because their hearts were pure, their Lenin clean. Americans, by contrast, scoffed at the game as one for myopic children...
...last week's B-26 mission, part of a six-week test being conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), was to prevent the buildup of electrical potential during a storm, and thus to prevent the occurrence of damaging lightning. Like iron filings near a bar magnet, the 4-in.-long, hair-thin fibers, when released in a thunderhead, align themselves with the lines of force in the electrical field of the cloud. What is more, negative and positive charges build up at opposite ends of the fibers, creating miniature electrical fields and ionizing the air around...
button. Oregon's spoofing James G. Elaine Society* says of its own "Magnet" state: "You can always tell when it's summer in Oregon-the rain gets warm." Oregon Governor Tom McCall is even more hard-nosed. "The concept of earlier decades was population growth at all costs," says McCall. "Well, that cost is now proving too much to pay, and we want none of that in Oregon." McCall started to tell tourists two years ago, "Come visit us, but for heaven's sake don't come here to live." Now he adds, "Soon...
...does not quite happen that way in real life, of course. Even in Wallace's overblown novel, the "Gospel According to James" turns out to be a possible forgery. But just as the source of the Nile was an irresistible magnet for 19th century explorers, the sources of the four Gospels that relate the life of Jesus remain irresistible lures to 20th century biblical scholars, and every so often some patient scriptural sleuth turns up another important piece of evidence. Recently, a Roman Catholic scholar arrived at a finding that could turn out to be this century...