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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...larger ships are planned. As the Torrey Canyon dramatically demonstrated in 1967, one ship can cause a major calamity. In the past five years 94 tankers have foundered; two collisions occur every week. Then there is the rising risk of dangerous pollution from offshore oil wells. Last spring a presidential panel investigating the Santa Barbara Channel blowout concluded that the U.S. faces one major oil spill every year after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Black Tide | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, the prophetic book that warns the world against pesticides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Top of the Decade: Environment | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...globally heightened form, has fundamentally arisen not against Christianity but through it," he writes. "It is originally a Christian event." So is it also, in a strikingly different way, in the thinking of Roman Catholic Theologian Gregory Baum. In a study called Man Becoming, to be published next spring, New York-based Father Baum perceives the promise of eschatology not so much in man's collective history as in each man's psychological nature. The "coming God," as Baum sees him, offers man a special freedom to rise above the determinism of his psyche. "Human life is open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Changing Theologies for a Changing World | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

Nevertheless, many retailers expect their gray Christmas to be followed by sluggish spring sales. Lawrence Goodman, a vice president of Korvette, offers a bit of cheer for the consumer: "There will be great buys in January" -when stores mark down the goods that they failed to sell before Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Cautious Santas | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...purge is a result of last spring's attempted takeover of Goodrich by Ben Heineman's Chicago-based Northwest Industries. Goodrich waged a successful defense [TIME, May 23] that has become a classic in corporate tactics. But Northwest emerged as the largest single stockholder, with 16% of Goodrich's shares. That was a sufficient threat to spur Goodrich's chairman, Ward Keener, to make good on his promise in the heat of the takeover battle to "improve profit margins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Quiet Purge at Goodrich | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

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