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...Bengal, and no fewer than eight major cyclones hit the region in the 1960s. The Indian Ocean's cyclones-the equivalent of the Atlantic's hurricanes and the Pacific's typhoons-are gigantic tropical storms that act like outsize rotary engines, sucking up and circulating the moist air that hangs over the balmy waters of the Bay of Bengal. The heat energy released in this process energizes the ferocious winds that in turn create the tidal waves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Pakistan: When The Demon Struck | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

...Segal's Love Story (New York: Harper and Row, $4.95) is at the very top of the New York Times fiction bestseller list. Segal (Harvard '58) is a classics professor at Yale who runs in the Boston marathon and wrote the screenplay for the Beatles movie. Yellow Submarine. His moist saga of a Harvard-Radcliffe romance circa-1965 was originally published in Ladies' Home Journal. Segal says. "Thirteen million readers of Ladies' Home Journal have learned something about what college kids are doing today." He bases this hope on the fact that his short novel (130 small pages of large...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: From the Coop Those Harvard Books | 9/24/1970 | See Source »

...Segal's Love Story (New York: Harper and Row $4.95) is at the very top of the New York Times fiction bestseller list. Segal (Harvard 58) is a classics professor at Yale who runs in the Boston marathen and wrote the screenplay for the Beatles movie, Yellow Submarine. His moist saga of a Harvard-Radcliffe romance circa-1965 was originally published in Ladies' Home Journal. Segal says. "Thirteen million readers of Ladies' Home Journal have learned something about what college kids are doing today." He bases this hope on the fact that his short novel (130 small pages of large...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: From the Coop Those Harvard Books | 6/11/1970 | See Source »

Although some of the cookies were bought, most of them were baked by coach Anne McCabe and members of the team. The chocolate chip cookies were a bit overdone, but extremely edible. For brownie-lovers, there was a choice-the moist, clingy type or the dry austere type...

Author: By M. I. G., | Title: Mrs. Riley's Punch Earns Praise At Well-Attended Post-Meet Party | 3/21/1970 | See Source »

...turned the area into a malarial swamp. For centuries, moisture seeping into the tombs from the swampy waters kept the paint from drying up and flaking off the stone walls. When the swamps were filled in 1944, the roots of the artichokes continued to keep the tombs moist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Treasure at Paestum | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

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