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Some of the temporary effects were equally spectacular. Surging waves generated by the quake reached as high as 220 ft. above sea level near Valdez. Some 2,800 miles from the epicenter, at Hilo, Hawaii, the seismic sea wave caused the ocean to rise 121 ft. And in Antarctica, 8...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seismology: Shaken Earth | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

Mrs. Ewing may have to bide a wee longer before the 1707 Act of Union making England and Scotland one nation is dissolved. National Party members number an insignificant 60,000 of Scotland's 4,800,000 inhabitants, but they have doubled in strength each year since 1963. Their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scotland: The North Rises Again | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

One answer to soaring college enrollment and the surging cost of professors is to put the prof in front of a television camera and simultaneously pipe him into numerous classrooms. Better yet, just record his performance on videotape, use it repeatedly, and free the teacher to do something else-possibly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching: The Viability of Video | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

After a summer of race riots, Negro students are returning to college campuses with a new and aggressive pride in being black. It shows up in a revival of all-Negro fraternities, surging membership in "Afro-American" student-action groups, demands for more "black culture" in the curriculum, and a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Black Pride | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

Then, catching sight of the television cameras, they flocked together and. . . nothing, just sporadic cheering and aimless waving. Violence became farce. The cameramen made empty signs of victory to incite "the surging crowd" to new heights of prime time enthusiasm, suitable for national consumption.

Author: By John D. Reed, | Title: The Agony and the Ecstasy of the Sox | 10/4/1967 | See Source »

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