Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Explaining the alien machine does not explain away the mystery. Astronomers agree that the brief conjunction of Jupiter, Saturn and Mars known to have occurred in 6 B.C. could have been the Star of the Three Wise Men. It might, therefore, mark the real time of Christ's birth, which considerable evidence, both historical and calendrical, tends to put some years before the year now known as A.D. 1. There is a slight complication, however. That star would not have been visible to most people in the Holy Land. For at that time of year, astronomers also know...
...Saul L. Chafin, chief of University police, announces that the Harvard police force will have new uniforms starting April 1. Chafin says he has arranged to rent the uniforms used by Richard Nixon's guards for a brief period in 1973. "We picked them up for a song," Chafin says, "and I never liked baby blue anyway." The Richard Nixon Library, which has been keeping the neonapoleonic uniforms in mothballs, refuses to disclose the price...
...finally within reach. The Secretary seemed especially relaxed on the plane. During the first day's talks, after reading their formal statements, Vance and Gromyko engaged in some serious trading, indicating that both had been given substantial leeway to strike a bargain. Later, after telephoning a brief progress report to Carter, a tired Vance acknowledged that the number of outstanding questions had been narrowed. Still, he cautioned, "We have some issues yet to be resolved. Some are difficult...
Gandhi was clearly looking forward to her brief confinement, which is due to end when the legislature recesses, possibly this week. Before she checked into prison, the National Herald, mouthpiece of her Congress-Indira Party (Congress I), published a special edition whose black-bordered front page carried a faked photograph of her smiling beatifically from behind bars. Thousands of pro-Indira protesters poured into the streets of Indian cities setting fire to buses and buildings and hanging Prime Minister Morarji Desai in effigy; at least 15 people died and Gandhi's followers claimed that 32,000 demonstrators were arrested...
...other words, the good news for Republicans this year may be that George W. Bush will narrowly defeat Al Gore for the presidency. The bad news may be that, after the brief Dubya interregnum, a second Clinton regime lies just down the road...