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Died. Marshall Kay, 70, Columbia University geologist and early proponent of the theory of continental drift; in Englewood, N.J. Kay's reconstruction of continental movements in 1948 showed that the boundaries of North America were delineated over 400 million years ago by undersea volcanic upheaval. He also predicted that Japan would one day merge with the Asian mainland. An organizer of the 1967 Gander conference on continental drift, Kay was honored with the Geological Society of America's top award...
...Britain's Prince Charles in an inflatable diving suit. Charles, on leave from his duties with the Royal Navy, came to the far north of Canada, donned insulated swim gear and spent 30 minutes under the ice in Resolute Bay with Joseph Maclnnis, a Canadian expert on Arctic undersea life. Charles' eleven-day trip to Canada included dinner with Prime Minister Pierre and Margaret Trudeau in Ottawa, a dogsled ride at Frobisher, and a tour of Eskimo villages, where he ate raw seal liver and musk ox steak. After his icy dive, the game prince adjourned to dinner...
...Soviet torpedo; the G-class subs carried at least ten in bow and aft tubes. U.S. naval experts also had never subjected the steel used in Soviet sub hulls to metallurgical analysis. Test results could tell them how deep Soviet subs can dive, a vital bit of information in undersea warfare...
...contemporaries labeled him "a political Jules Verne." The term was pejorative; Verne, after all, was producing outlandish fictions about lunar voyages and undersea exploration. Theodor Herzl was even more absurd. He helped create Zionism and predicted the return of the Jews to their homeland. Yet the comparison with Verne was more than superficial. Both men began as romantic visionaries who sought careers in law, then in the theater, then in literature. Verne went on to science fiction; Herzl went on to Palestine. That bizarre journey has all the qualities of fin-de-siècle romance. It might have been...
...Agatha Christie. He points out that the ancestors of certain North American animals seem to have come to their new home from Asia, something they could not have done if an ocean barred their way. He reports that the sea floor is spreading constantly on both sides of undersea ridges, notes that the Himalayas are growing at the rate of a few inches a century, forced upward as the Indian subcontinent pushes itself against the Asian mainland...