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...Soviet influence, which Reagan has vowed will be his policy, actually improve the working relationship between the U.S.and U.S.S.R.? Off in another noisy corner of the embassy, a Soviet diplomat pondered the idea and finally declared that there was no difference between Carter and Reagan. Then his expression grew distant and he added, "But at least we know where Reagan stands...
...lode of data to yield discoveries for months to come. The advanced computer-enhancement techniques developed at J.P.L. for processing color photographs permit researchers to mute or intensify colors to help bring out the faintest details. It was during a photographic fine-tuning session, while he was rerunning fairly distant views of Saturn on the TV screen, that J.P.L. Scientist Stewart Collins, working with David Carlson, a visiting student from Drexel University, discovered the planet's 13th and 14th moons...
...other times lag behind it? To fit this movement into the prevailing earth-centered view of his day, Ptolemy assembled meticulous records of planetary movements. In A.D. 140, he made a good guess about Saturn. Because of its slow pace, he deduced that it lay in the most distant of the heavenly spheres. Thus astrology gave way to astronomy...
...voyage around the sun. A superb telescope-maker, Huygens also discovered Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and calculated the time it took the ringed planet Huygens make a single journey around the sun (nearly 30 years). Wryly, Huygens speculated about the people who might inhabit these cold distant worlds: "It is impossible but that their way of living must be very different from ours," he wrote, "having such tedious winters...
...large patch of wheat and two swings that seem to reach forever up to the proscenium arch. The action after the first act is confined mainly to the house, which is towering but not very roomy, divided as it is into different levels. The actors, then, are both distant and dwarfed, surrounded by space and yet cramped; and against the purple sky of the second act, with rain falling steadily behind the house, really from the house, the director, Jenny Cornuelle, and the designers have concocted a haunting, far-away image of little people trapped by external and possibly internal...