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...relieve a plaintiff's intolerable burden of proof in some multiple-cause situations, the courts can hold all of the defendants liable. This may be true even if multiple acts are independent and harmless in themselves-for example, when several defendants deposit in a stream minor impurities that wind up polluting the whole stream. Another possible solution in such cases is to permit the defendants to fight it out among themselves as to what share of the damages each should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Torts: Conundrums of Causation | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

Nature's relief, the cool jet stream from Canada, was pushed out of its normal path by a unique high-pressure system, as impenetrable as a brick wall eight miles high. The barrier actually comprised three immense, tightly interlocked, high-pressure cells without precedent in more than a decade. At week's end one of the highs, out in the Pacific, shifted a bit, and a welcome Arctic draft sneaked through the wall to break-at least temporarily-the dog days of July. August was yet to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weather: It's Sirius | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

...electrons by the radio wave is in the form of mass. As a result, each electron increases its mass 40,000 times, and has acquired about 20 billion electron volts (BEV) of energy by the time it reaches the far end of the copper tube. There, the extremely powerful stream of charged particles passes through a beam "switchyard," where giant electromagnets direct it into one or another of two target buildings, or split it between both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Physics: Superhighway for Electrons | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

Died. Malvina Hoffman, 79, long America's foremost woman sculptor, a Rodin student whose deft-but-not-dar ing work used to be so popular that she was able to choose from a stream of lucrative commissions, most notably in 1930 when Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History asked her to portray all the races of mankind, a project that sent her around the world posing ethnic types from Senegal to the Solomons and resulted in 101 true-to-life bronze figures; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 22, 1966 | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

...from assorted local councils. Then in May, Fox carpenters set to work making the village even quainter than it was. TV aerials sprouting from gabled roofs were dismantled and a "piped in" system installed. Coca-Cola signs were removed, and because Puddleby-on-the-Marsh is a port, the stream meandering through town was dammed to create an inland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: 19th Century Fox | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

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