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To the west, though bitter artillery duels across the Suez Canal continued, the war of attrition between Egypt and Israel appeared to have eased slightly. Both sides continued jet attacks, but the planes hit only scattered military targets. In a dogfight over the northern Nile delta, Israeli pilots claimed two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Lever on Lebanon | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

ANNULAR and partial eclipses of the sun are not very interesting to scientists because the remaining two or three per cent of the ?? disc completely drowns out the coro?-a halo that is 500,000 times fain??er than the rest of the sun. It is possible to study the...

Author: By Mark W. Oberle, | Title: ?? Blotted Out-From the Sky | 3/6/1970 | See Source »

Originally, a mere few hundred scattered U.S. communities had fluorides in their water supplies, deposited by nature in the soils through which the waters flow. The value of man's imitating nature was soon apparent in the Grand Rapids experiment, which showed a dramatic reduction in the number of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fluorides Revisited | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

Even today the discovery of a new work can refocus the picture of medieval art constructed by scholars. Often the layman innocently accepts as truth myths that the historian has conjured from a scattered pile of facts. Fragments appear in odd places, and he can only tentatively identify them by...

Author: By Cynthia Saltzman, | Title: Art The Year 1200 | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

He cautiously humanizes Chavez as a man with a weakness for Diet-Rite Cola who cannot spare enough time from the cause for his wife and eight children. But that's about it. Clues to Chavez's character and motivation lie scattered all through the book. Perhaps the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Suffering for Others | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

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