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That last image may have been as much theatrical effect as spiritual experience; as the first nighttime launching, Apollo 17 was a triumph of spectacle. It was also the last manifestation of a wonder of the world, and to see it depart was like taking the last voyage on the Queen Mary or hearing the farewell concert of Toscanini...
...blasted out of orbit on April 5, when the earth, Venus and Mars will be in ideal positions for the mission. Their craft would swing by Venus on Sept. 10, 1985, getting a valuable gravitational boost that would speed it to Mars by April 10, 1986. The expedition would depart from Mars on May 20 and arrive back in earth orbit on Nov. 15, 1986-590 days after leaving...
...said that such pyrotechnics are a normal method of communication between submarines wishing to avoid radio contact. For another, Norwegian officials disclosed that patrols had made strong sonar contacts with at least one submarine trying to leave the fjord on the night that Radio Tirana asserts both subs did depart...
...Cunard Line, which expects the alterations to help increase the Q.E.2's profits by 50%, seems prepared to weather the storm. But even the line's chairman, Victor Matthews, looked a little queasy after he toured the liner a few hours before it was due to depart Southampton for New York. "This is a disaster," he said, having peered through half-painted cabins with naked light bulbs hanging from their sockets and cables strewn across the floors. "The ship looks as though a bomb has hit it." The Q.E.2's departure was delayed three days while workmen...
...young people drive them back to Tokyo, they then decide to return home. On the way, the wife, who has always seemed the stronger of the two, suffers a stroke her children come rushing to her sickbed. She dies, leaving her husband alone--the children, of course, depart immediately...