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...situated in the constellation Canis Major. Only 8.6 light-years from earth, it includes the brilliant Sirius A-the Dog Star - and Sirius B, invisible to the naked eye and first seen by telescope in 1862. Yet crude Dogon drawings have for centuries depicted what Temple concludes is an ac curate rendering of the relative positions and movements of Sirius A and B. It is from B that he suspects superior beings came to earth, leaving behind evidence of their godlike existence that has filtered down to us through mythology and a few artifacts. Temple suggests, for example, that Dogon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Worlds in Collusion | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

Mostly, Brezhnev developed the timeworn theme of the struggle between the Soviet "peace forces" and the "aggressive forces of imperialism," thus diverting attention from conflicts among Communists. Still, the mood of the conferees obliged the Soviet leader to ac knowledge the right of all parties to "suit their tactics and strategy to specific situations in their respective countries." The Italians were jubilant. Sergio Segre, the chief of the Italian party's foreign department, said that Brezhnev's remarks meant that "Communism has stopped being a closed system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Last Summit: No Past or Future | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

Write If You Get Work is a representative sampling of the thousands of such routines Bob & Ray have created over the years. As a book, it is a little underfurnished. There is no commentary, no analysis, only the bare scripts ac companied by a few photos. Yet it escapes nonbook status, thanks to the peculiarly literary nature of Bob & Ray's medium. From Fred Allen's 1954 Tread mill to Oblivion to the recent multi-volume compilations of the BBC's Goon Show, reprinted radio routines have proved surprisingly readable, and for sound reason. Alone among comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Loony Logic | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

Thieves Like Us, 5:30, 9:45 ac-The Long Goodbye, 7:45 [Weekend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCREEN | 9/19/1975 | See Source »

...Fenn '44, head of the Kennedy Library said yesterday he was "delighted by the offer from Umass, which, if ac- cepted, would allow the library and museum to be built on one site...

Author: By Mark J. Penn and Margaret A. Shaprio, S | Title: UMass Trustees Offer Site for JFK Complex | 2/11/1975 | See Source »

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