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...Tidal Wave...
Oceanside residents rushed to seaward windows, fearing a tidal wave; they heard only distant foghorns. Hill dwellers peered down at the San Fernando Valley and were shocked at the sight of fiery blue arcs rising from electrical explosions and plumes of water erupting from broken mains. On the valley floor, Jack Speyer dashed from his second-floor bedroom in Glendale brandishing a baseball bat, certain that a burglar was ransacking the rooms below. Twelve days overdue in her pregnancy, a woman near the quake's center knew only that labor had finally begun. At a 24-hour supermarket...
Away from the battlefield, his most recent assignment was the East Pakistan cyclone and tidal wave. To much of the world, it was Burrows' color pictures that finally translated the enormity of that disaster into reality. For as good as he was with action pictures, Burrows was a master of mood; his pictures of the Taj Mahal and Cambodia's Angkor temples are classics...
Most scientists have attributed the peculiar spin of Venus to huge tidal bulges created long ago on the surface of the planet by the sun's gravitational field. Such bulges would have acted like brake shoes on the rim of a flywheel; eventually they could have slowed the planet's rotation and perhaps even reversed it. Singer, the Interior Department's deputy assistant secretary for scientific programs, considers this explanation totally inadequate. The solar tidal effect, he says in Science, would have been far too small to account for even Venus' current rate of rotation, only...
Initially, the momentum of the errant moon would have carried it beyond Venus. Then, as Venusian gravity pulled it back, it would have again sped by the planet-but this time not so far out into space. Eventually, as the tidal forces between the two bodies increased during this strange celestial courtship, the moon would have been drawn into an increasingly smaller orbit around the planet. At the same time, Venus' spin would have been greatly retarded and eventually reversed; the planet's surface would also have become searingly hot from the friction of the tidal movements...