Word: apollo
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...When Apollo Milton Obote, 56, was sworn in for a second term as President of Uganda last week, he gained an unusual opportunity for an African leader: a second chance to rule his country. It was Dictator Idi Amin Dada who had ousted him in a military coup nine years ago. The challenge facing Obote is immense. Uganda, once known as the "pearl of Africa "for its productive agriculture, fine schools and superbly equipped hospitals, is today a nation in ruins. Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack White reports...
...hundred students settled into their seats in a darkened Science Center B Friday night, expecting to enjoy the Itallian Stallion's fight against Apollo Creed in the Great American boxing match--"Rocky." It was "Rocky," all right, but he was speaking Japanese...
...forms of the classics. Kuzminsky's work has been published in numerous books and journals around the world, and his life and work were illuminated in the Autumn '76 issue of the French magazine Parler, which dedicated that volume to his creative struggles and accomplishments. He also co-edited Apollo, a six-hundred-page anthology of contemporary Russian literature and art, as well as contributing to a local small press journal called Thicket. After three and a half years of establishing residence in Austin, the poet has planted his future in the "fresh and promising" literary climate of the city...
...Scotland is convincingly stark and metallic, too many ramps and staircases reduce the downstage area to the size of a sandbox--no room for conspiracies here, much less natural movement. Craig Sonnenberg's costumes, though effectively timeless, look too much like Bill Blass designs for a Himalayan expedition. The Apollo XI footwear especially renders normal activity difficult...
Science Editor Fred Golden first met Carl Sagan, this week's cover subject, in 1969, when TIME did a story on possible earth contamination from the Apollo 11 moon-landing mission. Golden, who had just come to the subject after writing for the World section, was eager to develop a list of specialists he could count on for expert advice and story ideas. He struck gold with Sagan and his gift for putting complex ideas into compelling language. Golden remembers him as a "very accessible and articulate young scientist who had a marvelous ability to get quickly...