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While movies like Towering Inferno, Tidal Wave and Earthquake were mesmerizing audiences of disaster buffs over the past year, Senior Editor Leon Jaroff and Associate Editor Frederic Golden, who writes our Science section, were carefully following a series of little-noticed events and discoveries that are leading scientists closer to achieving a critical breakthrough: the ability to predict, and possibly even control, earthquakes. Golden, who wrote this week's cover package and Jaroff, who edited it, have both been keeping tab on seismological research for several years. "We'd covered each advance piecemeal," Jaroff says. "Finally," he adds...
Rockefeller's optimism about the future of America seems undimmed. From the back seat of his limousine last week he admired anew the classic lines of the Supreme Court building, he pondered the herd of joggers around the Tidal Basin ("Must do this on their lunch hour... Must be good for you"). Being rushed to an appointment for which he was already late, he spotted a street vendor below the Capitol. "Gee," said the Vice President, "I wish I could stop...
...goes to some doomed white hunters who hap pily kill unarmed Indians. Whatever Raspail's private views of nonwhites, he clearly has not a minute to waste on nuance. The danger, as he sees it, is too near. The horrible miscegenation he fears infects his very metaphors: "The tidal wave fleeing the south has paused briefly to catch its collective breath in the soft underbelly of the nation...
...that winked from under hooded flaps of hot-rolled steel and pierced numb-screaming into the pitch of the flesh-ringed blackness; that fired in ringing engines and hung grey-eyed in their dribbling wake. For a day and a half, Fred and I raced through the tidal hours in his bronze-bodied van, but the American whatever stayed with us always. Caught in its plastic envelope like marbles in a dime-store package, we pressed never-ward with eight cylinders and 287 horsepower, spinning down white-aisled roads, waiting to be torn free...
Whether any campaign of retribution would be launched against Roman Catholics was unclear. None of the seven bishops in the captured provinces joined the tidal wave of fleeing refugees and none had been heard from at week's end. To still fears of a religious pogrom, Hanoi ordered its conquering troops to revere temples, pagodas and churches. Buddhist flags were hoisted alongside those of North Viet Nam and the P.R.G...