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...tend to favor the idea that it's in a nearly circular orbit just inside the orbit of Uranus," he said. He added if the orbit is circular it is probably stable, suggesting the object has existed in its present orbit for a long time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Doubts 'Tenth Planet' Label | 11/10/1977 | See Source »

...ultimate UFO-the Big Mama of the flying saucers -is the mother ship, part of which was built in a giant air plane hangar in Mobile, Ala. Big Mama is a huge, circular construction, with narrow spires rising from the center and a hundred or so windows around the rim. The mother ship is supposed to land at night, and Trumbull placed 2,000 flood lights and six arc lights along its edge to create what he calls a "wall of light" and the illusion that the entire ship is whirring as it settles to the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A City in the Sky | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...international adventurer glides through a modern landscape as ugly and alluring as sin. George Levanter, an Eastern European refugee from Nazi and Soviet persecution, is a "self-employed idea man." In fact he works in some hazy free-lance fashion for a firm called Investors International and follows a circular itinerary from the Swiss Alps to Beverly Hills and back to the snow again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dead End | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...page circular detailing his case, Humes dismisses the felony counts pending against him in New Jersey as "trumped-up charges," as one item in "the repertoire of the campaign to diseredit" him as a serious researcher. He asserts that "the continued suppression of the use of cannabis in medicine is a scandal of gigantic proportions," and he affixes the blame for this state of affairs on large manufacturers of patent medicines and various clandestine intelligence agencies which have, he claims, sought to impede his research...

Author: By Joseph L. Contreras, | Title: A Healer on the Lam | 10/19/1977 | See Source »

William McCurdy, coach of the men's track team, said yesterday he is very enthusiastic about the track facilities. "I hope we'll be able to say that this is the greatest indoor track facility in the world, better than most outdoor facilities," McCurdy said. The circular track has six three-foot-wide lanes and an additional six straight lanes, so that sprints and hurdles can be run at the same time as long distance events. The track was designed to provide the benefits of both strength and resilience, McCurdy added. McCurdy commented that running on the new track...

Author: By Andrew S. Davidson, | Title: New Indoor Tennis, Track Facility Opens | 10/7/1977 | See Source »

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