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...yelled through bullhorns. A helicopter swooped around the hotel announcing over a loudspeaker in English and Spanish that the fire was under control. Despite the warnings, at least one woman was killed when she tried to climb down a bedsheet rope from the 19th floor, made it to the 17th, and then fell...
...other great pioneer among Saturn watchers was the 17th century Italian-French more Jean Dominique Cassini. He located and named four more satellites (Iapetus, Rhea, Dione and Tethys). But Cassini's place in the heavens, and in was history of astronomy, rests on the discovery of a gap in what was then presumed to be a solid, opaque ring around Saturn. Other moons, as well as rings, were up in the intervening centuries, bringing the number up to a dozen. It took Voyager 1 to reveal that the "Cassini division" was not a gap, but many more rings...
...last week. What was enraging the editors? It turned out to be the publication of the Church of England's new Alternative Service Book. The book will henceforth be used in liturgy as a modernized alternative to the version of the Book of Common Prayer issued in the 17th century, just after the Roundheads lost power...
...down in history as the Metropolitan Opera's elevator contract. Talks with the orchestra started on the second floor of Manhattan's Doral Inn, moved up to the sixth, and then rose still higher to the 17th, where a tentative agreement was finally reached over the weekend. Though the musicians still have to ratify the contract-and 16 other unions must settle as well-one thing seemed virtually certain: the Met will have a 1980-81 season after...
...play unusually demanding instruments such as the horn and the oboe already had four performance weeks. The precise details of the settlement awaited this week's ratification vote, but it almost certainly represented a mutually acceptable tradeoff. "We got to the top in more ways than the 17th floor," exults Violinist Sandor Balint. The management is just as happy. "I'm elated," says Bliss. The real hero is Federal Mediator Wayne Horvitz, who persuaded both sides to lay aside their almost pathological hostilities. Says he: "They got rid of all that nonsense in the last three days...