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Some of the Club's new proposals for global controls and planning were highly questionable, but its basic turnabout was laudable. A world threatened by starvation and widening economic imbalance between nations must have development, not stagnation, of industrial and natural resources. Moreover, in an economically shrinking world without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: Return to Growth | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

It is still possible for a man like Wolbach to retire from the world to the Observatory. But he will be the last untonsured astronomer there. The logarithmically increasing expansion and division of the field is widening the gap between those within the Observatory and those without.

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: 'I Heard The Learned Astronomer...' | 4/22/1976 | See Source »

By August, geologists studying the crater rim found that steam escaping from widening fumaroles. or vents, had caused considerable melting of snow and weakened several large rock outcroppings; they warned that as much as 40 million cu. yds. of rock, a mass three times greater than that of Grand Coulee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Watching Baker Bubble | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

He spins it above his head, letting it fly farther and farther, in ever widening circles, like a lariat. The stunt was Daltrey's trademark as lead vocalist of The Who; it is still a profitable skill onstage and in films. Tommy, The Who's rock opera, was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rock Bottom | 10/20/1975 | See Source »

Some argue that the decline in English standards results from the increase of mass education and from open-admissions programs-although to argue against ever widening opportunity of education is to confront one of the most cherished goals of the American ideal. In any case, teachers all along the line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: CAN'T ANYONE HERE SPEAK ENGLISH? | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

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