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...with the sun. By December it will be the brightest object in the predawn sky, providing early risers with an unusual celestial display. The newly discovered comet may eventually be 50 times as brilliant as Halley's comet, which last dazzled the world in 1910; its tail could arc across some 30°-or one-sixth-of the evening sky. With no effort at hyperbole, Harvard Astronomer Fred Whipple says the onrushing giant "may well be the comet of the century...
...Charlie Company were thinking about getting home for the holidays. We had been humping through the woods and the paddies all day, looking for North Vietnamese troops but not finding them. Then, just before dark, we walked into an ambush-a North Vietnamese battalion dug in in an arc around us. By nightfall a fourth of the company was dead or wounded, and we were pinned down, taking mortars and automatic-weapons fire...
Last week Willy Brandt and Georges Pompidou met in Paris to congratulate each other on the tenth anniversary of the treaty. There were champagne toasts, a wreath-laying ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe and an exchange of kind words, along with the highest French and German decorations. At the final gala dinner, the German Chancellor nearly forgot to wear the lapel button of his brand new Grand Cross of the Legion d'honneur, then suffered a brief moment of panic when he discovered his dinner jacket had no buttonhole. The situation was saved by the deft thrust...
Indeed, some of her best pieces hardly become "art" at all. Hangup, 1965-66, is a rectangular frame, "tied up," as Hesse put it, "like a hospital bandage." A long loop of metal emerges from one corner, traces a wambling arc in the air, flops on the floor and creeps back into the opposite corner. It is articulately made but looks stumbling and impoverished, like a Beckett tramp. It still seems daring, but was vastly more so six years ago, when Minimalism still imposed its demands of geometry, scalelessness and high industrial polish on most new American sculpture...
...first best-of-three-game doubles match, Carr and Teammate Robert Thiede, 29, vice president of a New Jersey metalworking firm, stunned the crowd by winning the first game. Perspiring heavily under the arc lights, British Champion Tommy O'Regan, 33, a London milkman, allowed that he would take off his jacket but "I have a hole in my shirt." Then, zeroing in, the rosy-cheeked Irishman and his partner, Alan Cooper, a 34-year-old bricklayer, won the next two games and repaired to the bar for a victory gin and lemon...