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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overweening personage who may possess it. Sauron, the Dark Lord of Mordor, for instance, who has already sent his dread black Ring-wraiths coursing through Middle-earth to seize it. The only hope for peace lies with poor Frodo. He must journey to the very heart of darkness, to Mount Doom in Mordor, and drop the ring into the volcanic Crack of Doom, there to be destroyed forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eucatastrophe | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

...plane at Nouakchott, several people thought they were feeling exhaust from the airplane engines. But it was just an average Mauritanian afternoon, 114 and breezy....Much of the equipment Kern had brought to Africa was homemade, including a coelostat that incorporated a bicycle chain, part of a gun mount, and lead from melted car batteries.... Total eclipses are the ideal time for Vulcan hunts, since the sun is high but the sky is dark. Fischer was going to use an enormous aerial camera from World War II to photograph the region between the sun and Mercury....Mauritania has one modern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Magazine: A September sampler | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

John Kennedy was cruising in Cape Cod waters when the Berlin Wall went up. He hurried home and did nothing. One wonders what might have happened had he been in Washington, his fingers on all the sensitive spots, his generals and diplomats around him. Courage tends to mount in such settings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Seeking a Magical Vista | 9/10/1973 | See Source »

...opposition plot fails to reckon with the virtually certain response of Allende's dedicated proletarian supporters. The 1.4 million members of the General Confederation of Workers and other Allende partisans would undoubtedly mount a general strike and take to the barricades on behalf of their leader. The specter of civil war would most likely bring in its wake a military coup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Scenario for Chaos | 9/10/1973 | See Source »

...only 40% of those who applied. Unlike excavations elsewhere, the Jerusalem project continues throughout the year. It is conducted by Hebrew University under one of the world's greatest authorities on biblical archaeology, Benjamin Mazar. The point of the expedition is to uncover Herodian Jerusalem near the Temple Mount and try to get down to the foundations of the city at the time of King David (circa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Digging for Credit | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

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