Word: covered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dirt and despair. The atmosphere stifles rather than sustains; water poisons rather than refreshes; machinery and appliances invented for service and comfort fail to function and sometimes even maim and kill. What has anyone done about it? Until fairly recently, not a great deal. This week TIME'S cover tells the story of Ralph Nader, one man who felt that something had to be done-and set out to do it himself. Nader has spearheaded many of the gains the U.S. consumer has recently made in government, business and industry, science and medicine -wherever it is vital to attack...
...Pasachoff. a research fellow in Astronomy helping to organize Harvard's team, said that there would be two openings on the expedition staff for interested graduate students or seniors. A National Geographic Society grant will cover all travel and lodging expenses for the team-students included...
...eclipse will also be visible from Nantucket and along a band south to Mexico Scientists from all over the world will meet at Oaxaca. however. because the chance of cloud cover is smaller there than elsewhere along the band...
...Cover: Color-key transfer by Fred Burrell, whose technique of diffusing the photograph through various layers of colored plastic is intended to suggest the mist of horror surrounding the massacre and any who participated...
...bell-like reverberations were unlike any seismic event on earth, Columbia University Geophysicist Gary Latham offered a plausible explanation. The effect may have been caused, he said, by a layer of rubble or fractured rock sandwiched between bedrock in the floor of the Ocean of Storms and a solid cover of fine material deposits above. Lacking dampening fluids or gases, the layer of rubble may have acted as an echo chamber in which the seismic waves reverberated. If so, the next big seismic event on the moon should be a scientific spectacular; the third-stage rocket of Apollo...