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...even though millions of Americans now regard it as such. After ten years of rising incomes, younger couples have come to look on new homes, new cars, mechanized kitchens, plentiful jobs and good pay as virtually everyone's guarantee in the new U.S. economy. Future shakeouts may temporarily jolt that confidence, yet it is based on a lot of solid fact...
...since the earthquake of July 21, which centered in the nearby Tehachapi Mountains (TIME, July 28). One afternoon last week, while the air was hot and still, Bakersfield heard the familiar, low-pitched rumble, this time louder than ever. Floors, sidewalks, streets and front yards gave an extra hard jolt and a twist. In the downtown areas, timbers and masonry crashed down and plate-glass windows shattered...
...used at Hiroshima, which released as much energy as 20,000 tons of TNT. The Buckhorn Wash "bomb" (160 tons of TNT) released 1/125th as much energy. But because the explosive effect of a bomb decreases only by the cube root of its comparative size, the jolt it gave the rock around it was roughly one-fifth as powerful...
...after-luncheon mint into his mouth when Clark bounded over to him. Said Pearson: "It looked as if he'd been hiding, lying in wait for me. He said, 'Hey you, I want to talk to you.' I stopped . . . and he whammed me a helluva jolt on the neck." After that, according to Pearson, he was too busy "reeling around" to see Clark's blows, but recalls that Clark was "yelling . . . 'Take that for Brewster, take that for Keogh.' " Not so, said Clark: "I hit him in the eye with my left, swung with...
...confirmed narcotics addict. Their routine was to spend $25 for a half-spoon of heroin, enough to make ten or twelve individual shots. They sold the shots for $5 apiece. But, confesses Amy, "even that didn't pay for all the jolting we did after we got married. Eddie was spending around $40 a day sometimes just for the junk for us to jolt with...