Word: seismographs
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...enjoyment in a common intellectual approach to politics, collaborated on Kennedy's Profiles in Courage. Together, they traveled through every state from 1956 to 1960, compiled a detailed, 30,000-name list of top Democrats. Frayed by a 72-hour week as speechwriter, key advance man and political seismograph, Sorensen last year carved up his duties among other staff members, now serves as chief lieutenant, and defers more to Bobby...
Cornell's Hans Bethe. a former presidential adviser on disarmament and longtime crusader for the test-ban agreement, set out to describe the kind of detection network that would adequately police a ban on underground explosions. In describing a system that would require 600 seismograph stations spread across the U.S.S.R. alone, Bethe only convinced his congressional listeners that the feat of detection was just as impossible as Teller said...
Builders from All Over. Seeing hope in these improvements, settlers are coming in, turning wasteland into farms and farms into communities. The town of Gurupi, nonexistent 18 months ago, has jus finished harvesting a 2½ million-lb. rice crop. Directed by U.S. geologists, seismograph crews are hacking their way through the brush to set off exploration blasts and measure the echoes for the government oil monopoly, Petrobras; drilling crews are battling their way through vines and tangled trees to bore into promising substratum. Results so far: traces...
...Like a seismograph recording an earthquake in trackless ocean depths, Radio Peking last week revealed a major upheaval in the government of Red China. In the greatest purge in four years, some 25 vice ministers and other senior officials were fired from their jobs. The causes of the shakeup, though not divulged by Peking, seemed clear: the humiliating failure of "the great leap forward," the enforced revision of phony production statistics (TIME, Sept. 7), popular antipathy to the vaunted rural communes, and growing strain between Red China's Communist Party and army...
...Mile Crack. In pursuit of this theory the Lamont men, soon helped by other oceanographers, followed the crack in the sinuous ridge. Sometimes they spotted it on new depth charts, sometimes on old ones. When they noticed that many shallow earthquakes came from under it, they searched seismograph records for similar earthquake centers in unsounded parts of the oceans. By last week the Lamont men could trace the cracks 40,000 miles clear around the earth (see map). As in the Atlantic, the cracks generally follow the tops of rises in the ocean bottom. They stay midway between large land...