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...plan. According to Administration sources, the U.S. will increase its naval presence in the gulf from six ships to nine. The additional vessels will most likely be frigates, cruisers or destroyers equipped with missiles. Radar reports would be provided by Saudi Arabia-based AWACS and Oman-based P-3C Orions, while air cover would primarily be supplied by a Navy carrier stationed outside the gulf. The Navy ships will probably escort small convoys of three or four Kuwaiti tankers through the gulf every ten days or so. The danger spot for U.S. vessels will be the 40- to 60-mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Escort Service for the Gulf | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

Less spectacular, perhaps, was the discovery of a galaxy in the act of being born, a celestial infant long sought by astronomers. The one they finally found, called 3C 326.1, is exceedingly faint; it has been known for about 30 years, but only as an unseen source of radio waves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Arcs,Birth and a Disk in the Sky | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

...invisible object piqued the interest of Berkeley Astronomer Hyron Spinrad, known for his studies of very dim, faraway galaxies and quasars. Last spring Spinrad and his team first pinpointed 3C 326.1's position with New Mexico's Very Large Array radio telescopes; then they aimed powerful optical telescopes at the spot and discovered a glowing object about 12 billion light- years from earth. Later analysis of light from 3C 326.1 revealed that it was a newborn galaxy, three times as long as the diameter of the Milky Way. At the time the light viewed by Spinrad left 3C 326.1, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Arcs,Birth and a Disk in the Sky | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

...Beverly-based firm, the nation's 27th largest cable company. Prevailed over two other budders for the lucrative Cambridge cable market: Cambridge Cambridge Corporation(3C) and the Cambridge consumer Owned Tele communications. Inc. (Cable Plus). American constructed and currently operates cable systems, in Arlington. Quincy, New buryport, and Situate and in parts of New York, although the Cambridge system will be the most extensive urban project the company has undertaken...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: City Awards Cable License | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

...cables companies that did not win the Cambridge's license 3C representatives said their firm would dissolve while Cable Plus official said that they would consider application Healy's decisio

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: City Awards Cable License | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

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