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...enjoying it. While Landrum kept singing, "Boy, you should have seen the dugout vibrating; something was in the Cards," Tudor kept yawning, "It's just another ball game." After Royals Lefthander Danny Jackson held St. Louis off in the 6-1 fifth game, when a close call at the plate caused Manager Whitey Herzog to mutter a few favorite epithets, the treat of a Tudor-Saberhagen showdown in a seventh game began to come into focus. All that required was a happier destiny for old Leibrandt in Game 6: a preposterous ninth-inning comeback, 2-1, topped by Dane Iorg...
...There is a strong possibility of a boiler-plate summit reaching one or two milestones but never getting down to basics." --A senior adviser to Reagan...
...thing is that the final rounds of presummit briefings, speeches, meetings and (as always) propaganda in Washington and Moscow lend support to both these forecasts. Admittedly, the long-awaited talks next week between the leaders of the world's two nuclear superpowers may never get beyond the boiler plate of Soviet-American relations. If any concrete agreements emerge (cultural exchanges? new consulates?), it might be stretching a point to call them milestones. Indeed, it seems increasingly obvious that the 74-year-old President of the U.S. and the 54-year-old General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party are going...
...Colombian eruption, like most volcanic events, is the result of continental wanderlust. According to the widely accepted theory of plate tectonics, the earth's crust forms the top layer of about a dozen major plates and several smaller ones, which range in thickness from 20 miles to 150 miles. These sections float on a gooey layer of partly molten rock known as the asthenosphere. As they move in different directions at an average speed of several inches a year, the plates collide, dive under and buckle against one another, crinkling up into a mountain range here, yanking apart to form...
Christiansen and others suspect that magma is produced in the subduction zone, the border between the diving plate and the lower mantle. In that complicated layer, a variety of phenomena, including high temperatures, changes in pressure and the influx of water, may act to melt the already softened rock. Minerals and water then coalesce with the molten material into viscous, tear-shaped packets known as diapirs. Because they are more buoyant than surrounding rock, the diapirs percolate upward, like bubbles rising through honey, melting more rock as they go. Eventually they accumulate in pockets called magma chambers, located two miles...