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...today more sophisticated systems can alert people as much as a minute before a city starts to shake. "This is possible," explains Massachusetts Institute of Technology geophysicist M. Nafi Toksoz, "because seismic waves propagate through the earth's crust relatively slowly, 5 to 8 km/sec. With an extensive network of sensors, we can locate the epicenter and determine the magnitude of an earthquake. This gives us the opportunity to warn people in outlying areas." How long a warning depends on the distance from the epicenter. Had such a system been in place in Mexico, for example, residents of Mexico City...
Most scientists are disturbed by the lack of solid evidence to support that dramatic prediction. Veteran Seismologist Charles Richter of Caltech, famed for his earthquake-intensity scale, calls the thesis "pure astrology in disguise. In fact, it is very close to pure fantasy." Says M.I.T. Geophysicist M. Nafi Toksoz: "I'm not going into a bunker or anything like that when all the planets line up." Even those who concede the possible validity of some of the effects -the connection, say, between solar flare-ups and global climate-were highly skeptical about The Jupiter Effect. Don Anderson, director...
...Order. The turning point for Chris-Craft came in early 1960 when Harsen Smith, beset by family disagreements, sold out for $40 million to NAFI Corp., a Wall Street-run venture company controlled by famed Yachtsman Cornelius Shields. 66. and his investment banker brother Paul. To replace Smith as chief executive officer, the Shieldses installed bluff, chunky President Harry Coll, 52. who had been with Chris-Craft since 1939. Even before the Shields brothers took over. Coll had sent his close friend. Sales Vice President Charles R. Burgess, 51. off to survey the company's dealer organization. "Time...
...many reasons. Most of them are found in new or rapidly changing indus tries that are either riding new trends or testing new frontiers of knowledge: electronics and missiles, which have spawned some of the best performers; recreation and leisure, where such firms as Brunswick Corp. (bowling equipment) and NAFI Corp. (pleasure boats) have profited by the move to the suburbs and extra leisure time; drugs, where an outpouring of new products has brightened the future of such firms as Schering and Merck; vending machines, which promise to bring a new era of merchandising; and foods, where General Foods...
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., which has diversified from bowling into school and sports equipment, has been looking for a boatbuilder. It lost out on Chris-Craft Corp., the nation's largest motorboat maker, to NAFI Corp., which is controlled by Wall Street's Shields & Co. (TIME, Feb. 15). After helping to close the Chris-Craft deal, famed Yachtsman Cornelius ("Corny") Shields Sr., a Shields & Co. partner, pondered a way to see Brunswick into the boat business. As a director of the Owens Yacht Co., the nation's No. 2 builder of pleasure crafts (1959 sales: $15.3 million...