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Macbeth, from Shakespeare with Polanski's assistance, Cinema Kenmore Square, 644 Beacon St., daily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 2/17/1972 | See Source »

Macheth, from Shakespeare with Polanski's assistance, Cinema Kenmore Square, 644 Beacon St., daily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 2/10/1972 | See Source »

Gravel released portions of the Pentagon Papers last summer at a midnight meeting of a legislative subcommittee he chairs, and later provided a version of the report for publication by Beacon Press in Boston...

Author: By Richard J. Meislin, | Title: Popkin Faces Hearing for Contempt | 1/19/1972 | See Source »

...city of Amritsar, whose Golden Temple is the holiest of holies to all Sikhs. At Agra, which was bombed in the Pakistanis' first blitz, the Taj Mahal was camouflaged with a forest of twigs and leaves and draped with burlap because its marble glowed like a white beacon in the moonlight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Bangladesh: Out of War, a Nation Is Born | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

...attempt to pick up signals from nearby stars, they detected regular pulses that were later presumed to be emanating from a secret U.S. radar experiment. In the mid-1960s, a Russian astronomer detected varying signals from a mysteri ous radio source; Tass breathlessly reported that the signals were a beacon from a supercivilization. The source was later identified as a distant, starlike quasar. When Cambridge Astronomer Anthony Hewish and his assistant Jocelyn Bell in 1967 recorded blips coming from space at precise intervals, they playfully named the sources LGMs (for Little Green Men) on the chance that they had detected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Is There Life on Mars | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

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