Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, the terrorists' maddeningly effective ability to spread havoc and fear is far out of proportion to their numbers. Police believe that no more than six persons, split between two small Provisional I.R.A. cells, are involved. The war of nerves, as Scotland Yard sees it, is a desperate, last-ditch attempt by the badly scattered Proves to make the British so fed up that they will withdraw their troops from Ulster. But the bombings could also backfire and stiffen British resolve to stick it out. Late last week, the I.R.A., which had previously refused to confirm or deny responsibility...
...Guccione magazine, of course, is worth nothing without exposed flesh, and Viva has that. In a 15-page color spread about a promiscuous picnic in Old England, the softly lit photos show total female nudity but, surprisingly, the man is as carefully shielded as Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris. A 14-page beefcake act by a ruggedly handsome young boxer is beautifully done, but is marred by self-conscious cropping of poses in the locker room and shower...
Last week Durrell, 48, began a ten-week tour of the U.S. and Canada−his first North American visit−"to spread the gospel among the gentiles of the zoo world" and to drum up funds for SAFE (Save Animals From Extinction), an umbrella group now being set up to foster Jersey-like reserves in this country. The gospel according to "Mr. D," as his devoted staff of 20 call him: "Zoos have to become breeding reservoirs...
Daredevil Assaults. This year the Administration's budget cutters have decided to suspend the most dramatic aspect of Stormfury's work: the efforts to reduce the devastating power of hurricanes by "seeding" them with silver iodide crystals, spread by planes flying directly into the storm. Such daredevil aerial assaults, which in at least one case−1969's Hurricane Debbie−apparently succeeded in temporarily reducing wind velocities by as much as 30%, will not be resumed before the summer of 1976. Then Stormfury's pilots will try their seeding skills on typhoons, the Pacific version...
...hydrogen before rounding the next cosmic bend without so much as thank you. The probability that a vastly superior intelligence would be totally indifferent to man and his doings is indeed what Clarke is writing about. But the theme is a bit too thinly spread between those two familiar sci-fi constants, the speed of light and the indomitable molasses of human nature...