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Paris fell to the German army on June 14, 1940, and on that day a Nazi band followed by a battalion of foot soldiers circled the Arc de Triomphe and marched down the Champs Elysees to the Place de la Concorde. Each noon, until the city was liberated more than four years later, the same procession took place, and the French were reminded of their great shame...
...even after hours of patient long-distance troubleshooting (it takes nearly an hour and a half to send a radio command to the far-off spacecraft). By the next day JPL controllers had found they could at least get the frozen platform to swing through a few degrees of arc, though not smoothly or precisely enough to aim the instruments properly. By moving it through ever larger arcs, they hoped that they might eventually work it free. Such tactics helped overcome a similar problem on Voyager 1, caused by a stray bit of plastic that got into its gears...
...brief Zsa Zsa Gabor imitation. Then she lapses into the somewhat prosy shoptalk of a college-educated actress: "When I read the book, it elicited an emotional reaction in me and I determined to re-create it for someone else through thinking and design, thought and craft. The arc I designed for the character went up and happened." Then the arc-and-craft jargon drops away, and she says a bit wistfully: "Watching the film, I couldn't help wishing that I was more beautiful. There comes a point when you have to look the part, especially in movies...
...decision to make the neutron bomb looks for its inspiration to an old familiar figure who is happily playing a new role. Willy Brandt, 67, is suddenly back in the news, both at home and abroad-going to the Kremlin to discuss disarmament with Leonid Brezhnev, standing under the Arc de Triomphe at his friend Frangois Mitterrand's inauguration, initiating a North-South conference in Mexico in October that will be attended by President Reagan. Some West German politicians regard Brandt as a possible replacement for his rival and successor, Helmut Schmidt, should the growing opposition from the Social...
...what does a Radcliffe Joan of Arc do till the day of her martyrdom? There are no prison walls on which she can mark the passing days with a bent nail; only the Harvard Coop Calendar. There is not high, slit-like window through which the sun can halo her as she sits in her cell; only the noise and clatter of Briggs Hall. There are no guards to whom she can confide her visions...