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While black holes may be hard to sight in the heavens, they are gaining high visibility on earth. They are the current rage of astrophysics, a marriage between the older disciplines of astronomy and physics. Says Astrophysicist W. David Arnett of the University of Chicago: "Black holes are where it's happening these days." Hardly a week passes without the publication of some jarring new conclusion or insight about black holes in the scientific journals. In one of several
...them, producing derogatory information on two (a traffic violation on one and a love affair on another). Johnson asked for similar checks on at least seven journalists who had displeased him. They included NBC's David Brinkley, Columnist JOseph Kraft, Associated Press's Peter Arnett, the Chicago Daily News' Peter Lisagor and LIFE'S Richard Stolley (now managing editor of PEOPLE). L.B.J. also sought from the FBI, and duly received, information on critics of the Warren Commission's report on the assassination of Jack Kennedy (though Johnson himself doubted its conclusion, suspecting that Castro...
...camera seems to do strange things to the picture taker, viewer and subject alike. The A.P.'s Peter Arnett recalls watching a Buddhist monk in Viet Nam douse himself with gasoline and set himself on fire. "I could have prevented that immolation," says Arnett. "As a human being, I wanted to; as a reporter, I couldn't." Undoubtedly the issue was further complicated because the monk wanted pictures of his suicide circulated round the world...
...their home offices to decide for themselves whether to go or stay, at least 80 journalists remained to continue reporting the story. Among them were three Americans who had covered the war from the start of U.S. involvement: Bureau Chief George Esper, 42, Matt Franjola, 32, and Peter Arnett, 40, all of the Associated Press. Said Arnett, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his Viet Nam War reporting in 1966: "I was here at the beginning, and I think it's worth the risk to be here...
...Cong friend and two North Vietnamese soldiers and revealed proudly that he had been a revolutionary for a decade working as a "liaison with the international press." He thereupon guaranteed the safety of the A.P. newsmen and joined them in a round of Cokes and leftover cakes. Wrote Peter Arnett that night: "I never dreamed it would end the way it did at noon today. I thought it might have ended with a political deal like in Laos. Even an Armageddon-type battle to the finish with the city left in ruins like in World War II in Europe...