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...such leader is Mrs. Helen Howard, a housewife in the black Vine City section of Atlanta. She has turned her considerable energy to the Vine City Foundation, Inc., which has set up a health clinic, a nursery for children from disrupted homes, counseling for blacks on welfare programs and a campaign against rent-gouging landlords. On a national scale, Mrs. Johnnie Tillmon is a key member of the National Welfare Rights Organization, one of the most effective defenders of the black poor. It has chapters in all 50 states that are working to help welfare recipients secure their full legal...
...portrays George Custer as a villain leading troops bent on genocide. Three books personalizing Indian alienation have won critical acclaim. A novel, House Made of Dawn, by N. Scott Momaday, a Kiowa who teaches English at Berkeley, won a Pulitzer prize last year. Custer Died for Your Sins, by Vine Deloria, a Standing Rock Sioux, wryly details
...theory was so unorthodox and tenuous that Hess cautiously called it "geopoetry." It was soon to become geo-fact. After studying Hess's work, a 24-year-old Cambridge University graduate student, Frederick J. Vine, proposed an ingenious test. The iron in the lava from the mid-ocean ridges, he suggested, should be imprinted with the direction of the earth's magnetic field prevailing at the time that the lava cooled off. But patterns in land rocks had already shown that the magnetic field has inexplicably reversed itself as many as 171 times in the past 76 million...
Building the Andes. Vine's recorder provided almost instant playback. Surveying the seabed with sensitive magnetometers towed by an oceanographic vessel, he and other investigators found a zebra-striped pattern of magnetism, its direction repeatedly reversing as their ship moved farther away from the mid-ocean ridges. Seismologists quickly followed with proof of their own. If the sea floor was actually rising from the ridges and dropping back into the earth through the trenches, they reasoned, there should be more seismic shocks in these regions than in surrounding areas. Tests proved them right. The U.S. oceanographic vessel Glomar Challenger...
...intellectual romantic. Part of her seeks out the austere companionship of fine minds; another part of her yearns for a man on horseback to sweep her off her high horse. Hedda can be revolted by things womanly, such as her own pregnancy, and yet crave a man "with vine leaves in his hair" who will release her from her inner reserve, from her lingering fastidiousness about what society will think...