Word: coms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the help of his trusty "astro-probe" - Hawkins' term for the com puter-aided ability to re-create past sun and moon behavior - the author has found a "cosmic orientation" nearly everywhere. The world's largest ancient temple, built on the Nile for Amon-Ra about 1500 B.C., is aligned so the midwinter sunrise strikes the altar in the high room of the sun. More than a dozen Maya sites built around 500 B.C. mark the cycles of the sun, and Chichen Itza, like Stonehenge, clearly shows the extremes of lunar movement. On the banks...
...Legislation vital to your health and well-being sits unattended on the congressional calendar," the President com plained, obscuring the fact that it is the Executive Branch - and not Congress - that has been paralyzed by Water gate. "Confidence at home and abroad in our foreign policy is being sapped by uncertainty," said Nixon, as if Phase IV and the price of beef depended upon the support of Senator Sam Ervin...
...keep him built into me, and I often want to turn it on because it is less troublesome. But I feel sick when I do, as if caught in the act of lying for something you don't give a damn about. I still feel com- promised when I acknowledge my need for love of a man because I am not sure that I can protect my human independence from the sexual dependence I was trained to need...
...with the scarred face who was returning from 20 years in Soviet slave labor camps to claim the throne of Spain. Or the time he went to Japan on his own and wound up in "a wild round of I Spy, featuring Koto-playing geishas, Chi-Com masters, and a beautiful Nipponese belle who's simply murder in the bath." Hazardous Duty's burglary scene is of special interest, however, to readers who know that Author David St. John is really E. Howard Hunt, the convicted Watergate conspirator...
...Associate Editor Ed Magnuson, MacNeil met with the Senator in his Senate offices, at his hideaway in the Capitol and on his home territory in North Carolina. Fellow correspondents, meanwhile, retraced Ervin's early years in Morganton, N.C., and pored over 30 volumes of testimony from his Senate com mittee hearings...