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The Poles who listened were more than merely sorry. Throughout Poland, the continuing attempts of Wladyslaw Gomulka's Communist regime to sidetrack the millennial festivities have created a darkening mood of resentment that is spreading from the deeply religious to those who normally take a more impartial stance. The...
"Death of Truth." After another sermon in the harbor city of Gdansk, shouting students marched on the main railway station, tore down an antichurch billboard and used it as kindling for a bonfire. Angrily the government fired off a note to the cardinal, ordering him to tone down the millennium...
Every half-million years or so, for unknown reasons, the earth's magnetic field suddenly flips. Within a period of 10,000 years-a mere instant on the geological time scale-the north and south magnetic poles exchange places. Scientists have long suspected that the mysterious reversals may produce...
Construction men now use the whirlybirds to lift church steeples and TV towers, telephone poles and prefab homes. The machines have become the most up-to-date tool for crop dusting, spraying, seeding, fertilizing; on giant ranches, one copter can do the work of 18 cowboys herding cattle. One New...
The story begins in late 1966. Erhard forms a "grand coalition" with the opposition Social Democrats to promote a daring new policy for the reunification of Germany. Lyndon Johnson approves, takes the occasion of a visit to Berlin in 1967 to offer a U.S. guarantee of Poland's Oder...