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More than a billion miles away, just beyond Saturn's orbit, the lump of icy debris is only dimly lighted by the sun and distant stars. Even the big Palomar mirror could not have found it without a highly sensitive silicon-chip light detector called a charge-coupled device (CCD), used in place of a photographic plate. When the comet approaches for its hairpin swing around the sun in 1986, solar radiation will boil off volatile material, creating a glowing head and characteristic tail and perhaps another heavenly spectacle...
...collected the black bat that Brewer Third Baseman Paul Molitor used to lash a record five hits in Game 1. Milwaukee's marvelous Shortstop Robin Yount, the only player in the 79-year history of the World Series ever to have two four-hit games, was glad to chip in. He does not save things. When a Milwaukee fan caught his home run in Game 5 and tried to give the baseball back, Yount told him, "Why don't you keep it? I'll sign it for you." As the man floated away, Yount murmured...
...campaign through 350 separate PACs. Business followed the union lead and soon overtook them: this year 1,497 corporate PACs will give $30 million to the candidates. Trade associations such as the National Association of Realtors and the American Medical Association (A.M.A.) account for 613 PACs, which will chip in another $22 million. An additional 45 PACs are run by cooperatives like the Associated Milk Producers, and will give $2 million this election. By far the greatest, and most worrisome, growth has been among the loose cannons of the PAC arsenal, ideological PACS not connected to any organization. Among them...
...into All Savers Certificates to take advantage of high interest rates. With the stock market shooting up, Halper last week called his stockbroker at Shearson/American Express and placed a buy order. Said he: "The yields were no longer attractive, so I decided to buy about $35,000 in blue-chip stocks." Millions of small investors left the market in the long bear market of the early 1970s, but many of them are now coming back, slowly...
That magic mountain of money is not conjured up by rubbing Aladdin's lamp. It comes from a gambling alliance that bases its calculations on a measure of snob appeal and tested blue-chip talents. After all, no other musical can boast a T.S. Eliot as its lyricist, so to speak. Even if Eliot was playfully doodling for his godchildren and friends in his 1939 Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, he remains a god in the pantheon of 20th century poets. Cats Director Trevor Nunn and Designer-Cos-tumer John Napier, of the Royal Shakespeare Company...