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...Italian descent and speaks fluent Italian, had hopes that he would be received by Pope Paul VI. He had also intended to chat with President Giovanni Leone at the Quirinale, negotiate with leaders of Italian industry and then receive lesser lights from the Holy See, the government and the financial community. None of it happened. The Pope did not grant an audience; the reason, a Vatican spokesman told Perón, was "because of interpretations that could be given such a meeting." President Leone, who had enough free time to preside over a reception for film stars (including Richard Burton...
There are at least 5,000 children with Cooley's anemia in the U.S. alone, most of them of Mediterranean descent; unlike most genetic flaws, this one has a known geographic origin. Mary Lou and Linda are more fortunate than most victims of their disease. They receive regular transfusions of red blood cells from the Children's Blood Foundation, an unusual organization affiliated with Manhattan's New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center that offers hope to victims of this and other debilitating diseases...
...face of it, the scheme was not all that farfetched. Flares are usually fired from the ground high into the air or dropped from a plane to light up a target at night. To extend the time of illumination, parachutes are used to slow the flares' descent. Trouble is the chutes are bulky and heavy. Thus, the light little Frisbee, which is stabilized by its gyroscope-like spin as it sails through the air, seemed like a possible alternative. Properly launched, the Navy researchers reasoned, Frisbees might well serve as a steady descending platform for flares and perhaps other...
Passing through that atmosphere on the way to its landing, Venera detected traces of ammonia, confirming earlier observations made by earth-based telescopes. By tracking Venera's descent, the Russians also measured Venusian winds of 110 m.p.h. at an altitude of 30 miles, comparable to the speed of the earth's jet streams. Near the surface, however, they clocked winds of only about four m.p.h. Some scientists believe that the winds are stirred up by Venus' rotation, since they seem to blow only in the direction of the planet's spin...
...giant, state-run public relations venture, which the Polish government uses to make its peace with the approximately 1,500,000 native-born Poles living in other countries-many of whom fled when the Communists gained power after World War II-and the millions more of Polish descent whose parents and grandparents were forced to emigrate because of poverty and turmoil...