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...last large-scale killers occurred in Asia. One, last December in northern Pakistan, ravaged nine towns and took nearly 5,000 lives. The other, a February tremor in China, is believed to have killed hundreds. Indeed, not a day passes without earth tremors somewhere on the globe. Some of those quakes are too weak to be felt by humans; they can be detected only by sensitive seismographs. Others are more violent but occur on the ocean floor or in remote areas and do no harm. Some add to the long catalogue of destruction. Last week, for example, a 4.7 earthquake...
...version of War and Peace). And a conversation between a man and his wife is more interesting to me than the battle of Borodino. The miracle of cinematography is the reconstruction (or, if you will, the construction) of human life. Film magnifies human "fleas" to superhuman proportions, and a tremor of the lips or the eye's loving glance is more powerful than a cannon shot...
While testifying before the Ervin committee last summer, Jeb Stuart Magruder mentioned that the Committee for the Re-Election of the President had paid $20,000 to Author-Columnist Victor Lasky in 1972. Amid the Watergate quakes, this disclosure hardly caused a tremor, but it did rattle Lauren Soth, editorial-page editor of the Des Moines Register and Tribune. He alerted the National Conference of Editorial Writers that the 100 papers subscribing to Lasky's weekly column (syndicated by the North American Newspaper Alliance) had been uninformed about Lasky's financial connection with C.R.P...
...Congratulations on your superb editorial [Nov. 121. In these hysterical times, TIME is one of the first voices to submit that the resignation of Mr. Nixon would be only a tremor to strengthen us, not an earthquake to bring us down. Your logical and responsible editorial puts it all into perspective when we the people desperately need some perspective...
...within the rock, causing one wall of the fault to slide along the other. It is this slippage that creates the shock. In a paper submitted to Science, Sykes, Aggarwal and Christopher Scholz assert that in the Blue Mountain region the seismic-wave phenomenon occurs before every sizable earth tremor...