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...commentator was clearly excited. "The parachute is coming down, coming down!" he repeated rapidly. "Coming down!" Beneath the plume of a red-and-white chute one morning last week, a capsule drifted earthward carrying three cosmonauts, Leonid Kizim, 43, Vladimir Solovyev, 38, and Oleg Atkov, 35, to the arid steppes of Soviet Kazakhstan. The triumphant trio, who had been aloft since last February aboard an orbiting Soviet space station, were the possessors of a new space endurance record: a 237-day spin through the heavens.* A more important trophy was the cache of information gathered from experiments run on board...
...would take a petition signed by 10 percent of a county's voters to put the issue up to be passed by a majority vote. Oklahoma didn't actually repeal prohibition until 1959, and organizers on both side of the liquor-by-the-drink issue says most of the arid state is still very much in favor of being dry. The only exceptions noted are the counties including metropolitan Oklahoma City and Tulsa, which have grown rapidly (Oklahoma City 45,000 since 1970; Tulsa 35,000 in the same 14 years) with an influx of people--presumably alcohol fans--from...
...because "I just feel more elegant, to be blunt about it." She is horrified by the idea of a tip jar ("It would seem like soliciting") and is hurt only "if someone requests a classic, like a Rachmaninoff concerto, something that takes a lot of your soul and concentration, arid then talks throughout. That breaks my heart...
Hardest hit was an area near the town of Roundup (pop. 2,119) in southeastern Montana, where 37 homes were destroyed by a blaze that began in the arid Bull Mountains, sending up columns of smoke that drifted into Billings, 30 miles to the south. "It sounded like a jet engine coming through," said Dana Lynam, 34, after a wall of flames attacked her house and melted nearby mobile homes and autos in minutes. Lynam and some 500 others throughout the state were evacuated in time to escape the flames...
...bluster but not the bombast of the aging tycoon, and his Southern accent contains a trace of irony that seems to emanate from the actor, not the character. This is a Medium-Size Daddy at best. Still, the play, and Lange, tower above the rest of an arid summer's TV offerings. -By Richard Zoglin