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Thursday, October 16 DANIEL BOONE (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A former slave (Roosevelt Grier), now chief of the Tuscarora Indian tribe, gives ole Dan'l a hand in snatching a British cannon. "Rosy" will be back in other episodes. THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:20 p.m.). Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Roddy McDowall, Robert Redford and Ruth Gordon ramble through the Hollywood of the '30s in Inside Daisy Clover (1966). IT TAKES A THIEF (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Fred Astaire also takes on a recurrent guest-star role as the retired master thief and father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 17, 1969 | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

...mile-by-mile description of the road over the Tuscarora Mountains to Chambersburg and the British military base at Carlisle; a dozen scenes of frontier crowds praying and dancing and singing; a spate of Irish and Scotch dialects; a history of the settlements, Indian wars and politics of western Pennsylvania; a long, rapturous recipe for duck soup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reading Book | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

Vast geologic forces stir in the Tuscarora Deep, a submarine trench facing Japan. Last week a section of the ocean floor gave way, creating a violent tremor. Ten-foot seismic waves of water thundered toward the main home island of Honshu, raced up the funnel neck of Kii Strait, dealt sleeping villages across 60,000 square miles six shattering blows in three hours. Tokyo newspapers called it the worst disaster since the great earthquake of September 1923, which killed 143,000. Said famed Fordham Seismologist Father Joseph J. Lynch: "A ripsnorter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Ripsnorter | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...vast Tuscarora Deep, lying off the Pacific shore, sends out earthquake shocks which regularly rock the country. During the first 13 years of scientific recording, Japan averaged three and a half seismic shocks a day. The eastern shores of the main islands are slowly rising out of the Pacific; the western shores are slowly sinking into the Sea of Japan. There are 200 volcanoes, 50 of them still active. Storms constantly sweep the islands' 5,500 miles of shoreline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Willow & the Snow | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

Tear Gas. Flying a fast Lockheed from McKeesport, Pa. to Providence, R. I. to deliver a load of tear gas bombs to National Guardsmen in the textile strike (see p. 22), General Manager Theodore Taney of Central Airlines crashed in the Tuscarora Mountains, was found dead in his half-opened parachute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Flights & Flyers, Sep. 24, 1934 | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

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