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With the retirement of Justice Douglas [Nov. 24] there hovers a dark threatening cloud over our basic constitutional rights...
...future of the private schools is now under a legal cloud, however. The Supreme Court will probably rule next spring on whether private schools can continue to refuse admission to black students because of their race. The Internal Revenue Service in 1970 denied a tax exemption to schools that segregate in their admissions procedures but has not been enforcing that decision vigorously...
Present-day America does appear in a few of his stories, but even here Helprin usually blunts the edge of reality by recounting events through the cloud of memory. His continual shifting of location and characters is baffling at first; how can he have something important to say about the life and customs of each place, about the young Hebrew scholar and the aging Catholic priest, the Canadian orphan with musical aspirations and the illiterate Italian aristocrat? Slowly, it becomes apparent that Helprin is experimenting with the application of his theme--the mixture of past and present--to different situations...
...coolant that controls its temperature, the reactor begins melting in its own heat. Then the machine and its fuel collapse into a molten mass that explosively converts the coolant water into steam. The resulting blasts rip open the power plant's massive concrete dome, releasing a cloud of radioactive gases. Tens of thousands of people living near by are contaminated by radioactivity. Many die within days. Others suffer lingering illnesses and develop cancer years later...
Simonson now hopes to aim an optical telescope at the rotating hydrogen cloud that is the core of the galaxy in an attempt to spot some of the 200 million stars that he estimates it contains; he will use those sightings to determine the galaxy's distance from earth. If the existence of the little galaxy is confirmed, it may be given a name. Until then, the hydrogen cloud will be known officially as 0627-15 (for its position in the sky). But the suspected galaxy, which has only one one-thousandth the mass of the Milky...