Word: companion
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Dotson Rader, who is seen embracing Williams on the back cover of Cry of the Heart, was a close companion in the playwright's declining years. Unlike Spoto, he evokes the winsome qualities of Williams' naughtiness and ructions, the merriment as well as the anguish of that time. Rader's reminiscences are if anything raunchier and more explicit than Williams' own, and without footnotes or explanation of sources, some of his anecdotes about the peccadilloes of the famous seem too bad to be true. Beguiling as gossip, Rader's book has none of the inclusiveness or gravamen of Spoto...
...results of the crater analysis were published in the British journal Nature, right beside the Nemesis report. Coincidentally, that same issue contained yet another paper on the death star. It was from Whitmire, who had independently conceived of a companion...
Reviews for the Nemesis debut were what might be called mixed. Critics charged that so gigantic an orbit had never been recorded for two companion stars, and with good reason. If the sun and its presumed partner were actually three light-years (18 trillion miles) apart, they said, the gravitational attraction between them would be so feeble that a passing star or dust cloud would have bumped Nemesis out of orbit long ago, certainly before it could come back through the Oort cloud a dozen times. Says Shoemaker, who has been something of an impartial judge in the periodicity controversy...
...captured the imagination of many others. Says Tom Gehrels, an astronomer with the University of Arizona: "When I heard the theory, I knew in my heart it was right." Indeed, Gehrels immediately hopped on a westbound plane to try to persuade Muller to let him help search for the companion. But Muller's own telescopic dissection of 5,000 stars in the Northern Hemisphere that are candidates for being Nemesis was already under way, and there was no need for Gehrels' help. So far, Muller has photographed nearly all the target stars once and is preparing to shoot them again...
Nancy Reagan, meanwhile, will leave her traveling companion for a side trip to Italy to pursue her antidrug crusade. On Friday she will attend a luncheon in her honor at the Quirinale palace and then pay a call on a residential drug-treatment center outside Rome. The next day she will have a private audience with the Pope to discuss drug abuse, followed by a tour of the * Pauline and Sistine chapels. She is scheduled to return to Bonn in time for the summit's windup dinner on Saturday night...