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...This is the first time we've gone to the comet," said Carl Sagan. The Cornell University astronomer was one of about 100 foreign scientists who gathered at Moscow's Institute of Space Research to observe the eagerly awaited rendezvous of the Soviet spacecraft Vega 1 with Halley's comet. At 2:30 a.m. (EST) on March 6, as Vega passed within 5,300 miles of Halley's nucleus and as images of the legendary comet flashed on television screens at the institute, Sagan joined the other foreign scientists in applause, while Soviet scientists and technicians hugged and kissed...
...dramatic as the Eastern deal was, it was only the first installment of the one-two punch that rocked the airline business in a single week. Four days later TWA Chairman Carl Icahn said the carrier would buy St. Louis-based Ozark Air Lines for $225 million. That union would increase TWA's annual traffic by 30%, to some 27 million passengers, and strengthen its position as the fourth- largest U.S. airline. The merger would be a coup for Icahn, a New York financier who gained control of TWA only seven months ago. Though a TWA-Ozark deal was already...
...getting to the point of lobby-lock now," says Lobbyist Carl Nordberg. "There are so many lobbyists here pushing and pulling in so many different directions that, at times, nothing seems to go anywhere." The most pernicious effect of the influence-peddling game may simply be that it consumes so much of a Congressman's working day. Every time a Congressmen takes a PAC check, he is obliged at least to grant the contributor an audience. The IOUs mount up. "Time management is a serious problem," says Frank. "I find myself screening out people who just want to bill their...
...reports we're getting is that there was no tampering afterwards. So this would lend support to the theory that somewhere during the manufacturing process is when the cyanide was put into the capsule...in the plant," said Westchester County District Attorney Carl Vergari...
...think it's just one of those [people] trying to extrot money and trying to get publicity," said Bronxville Police Chief Carl Steinmuller. He said he did not think the man had any hand in the poisoning death of Diane Elsroth of peekskill...