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...Florida sky. On the moon there are flags from the earth, and on earth there are pieces of the moon. The Apollos have passed from the evening news into an assured place in history. They have opened a chestful of scientific riches that researchers will need years to assay fully. They have not solved the problems of the earth, nor were they meant to. But, as Bradbury suggests, they may have provoked man into asking anew some of the old questions about the heavens-and himself...
...drought, moreover, has brought in its train a host of other problems. Small businesses have been wiped out. Drinking water is so scarce that it has to be hauled in by oil trucks. Thousands of unemployed have thronged into the cities in search of work. Malnutrition is pervasive. To assay some of the effects of the drought, TIME'S New Delhi Bureau Chief William Stewart last week visited the hard-hit state of Maharashtra and its capital, Bombay, and filed this report...
...Holland that is the home of the Limburger cheese) accurately reflects the central theme of the campaign so far: an overriding concern about inflation that has cut deeply into Brandt's lead in personal popularity. Last week TIME'S chief European correspondent William Rademaekers visited Limburg to assay the voters' mood. His report...
...Christian Holder and Rebecca Wright), in revealing skin-toned body suits that appear to have been glued on, carry out a lyrical sequence of serpentine, limb-entangling maneuvers that resemble moving illustrations for a graduate course in the Kamasutra. The third duo (Susan Magno and Tony Catanzaro) assay an updated version of that dreadful comic cliche of Pigalle nightclubs, an apache dance. The will-they, won't-they jousting ends, amusingly enough, when the girl resoundingly slaps her passionate but reluctant lover. He swats her one right back...
...guilt for the fatal shooting of four students at Kent State University in May 1970 appeared to be impossible amid the polemic and passion of the time. An Ohio grand jury attempting to assay culpability in the confused events placed blame on Kent State students and administrators and exonerated the National Guardsmen who fired into the crowd of demonstrators. But in making its report, the jury exceeded its authority under state law, and its findings were judged illegal by a federal court; they were ordered expunged from the public record, although 25 indictments against students and faculty members were allowed...