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...more than $128-or made more than $192. In fact, he gained far more. He wrote an enchanted book and found a soul-sustaining insight: "What was any renaissance but a sudden bias in favor of hope?" Readers can only be biased in favor of more from this gifted centaur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

...further and further into the recesses of the subterranean hospital. During his quest he encounters a veritable circus sideshow of diseased cripples and sexual freaks: the building's assistant director, a character called- "the horse," who cured his impotence through an operation turning him into a kind of centaur; the secretary who was born a test-tube baby, and so lacks any sense of human relationships; & couple who determined to safeguard their marriage by subjecting every conversation to a lie detector test; a preadolescent nymphomaniac who suffers from a disease that reduces her bones to liquid; and her mother, whose...

Author: By Peter M. Engel, | Title: Illness as Simile | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...cool, clear night last November a gleaming Atlas-Centaur rocket sat ready on its floodlit launch pad at Cape Kennedy. Perched atop the silver booster, the High Energy Astronomical Observatory-2 (HEAO-2), the most ambitious and advanced astrophysics research probe ever, lay shrouded in protective covering...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: 'Einstein Observatory' Blasts Off | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...yesterday, an Atlas-Centaur rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral and sent HEAO-2 into an orbit that mission scientists called "perfect ... right on the money...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Tension High As Satellite Is Launched | 11/14/1978 | See Source »

...High Energy Astrophysical Observatory-2, an x-ray facility astronomers say may produce far-reaching advances in astrophysical research, had a successful launch at 12:24 this morning when it was boosted into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Fla, by an Atlas-Centaur rocket...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Rocket Launch O.K. | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

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