Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First details of the Russian shot came not from Moscow but from the irrepressible English astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell. "Listening to Apollo with one ear and Luna with the other," as Lovell put it, he tracked the loudly signaling Soviet ship with the 250-ft. Jodrell Bank radio telescope. Soon after launch, he determined that the spacecraft was traveling more slowly than previous Russian moon shots, was on a different trajectory and was transmitting "heaps" of information with a new kind of signal that he could not interpret. The slower velocity indicated to Lovell that the Russians were trying...
Rising Waters. As it has for centuries, Venice last week enticed and entranced a horde of tourists, part of the city's 3,000,000 annual visitors. Few of them were aware that "man's most beautiful artifact," as Art Historian Bernard Berenson called Venice, is sinking beneath their feet...
...FIXER. Alan Bates, Ian Holm and Dirk Bogarde perform with passionate conviction in this movie based on Bernard Vlalamud's novel in which a 20th century lob survives the plague of prejudice and degradation in Czarist Russia...
PICTURES OF FIDELMAN, by Bernard Malamud. Yet another shlemiel, but this one is canonized by Malamud's compassionate talent...
Internal Vocabulary . The results of such experiments tend to support the the ory of mind over matter, so long ridiculed by modern science. "People are re-examining old concepts like mind-body dualism," says Dr. Bernard Engel of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Baltimore...