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...front runners, to be sure, could suffer some embarrassments before their parties hold nominating conventions in July and August. As the near certainty of the final outcome sinks in, many voters who object to such a result could coalesce behind the leaders' major opponents. There was a distant possibility that Ted Kennedy could benefit from such sentiment by pushing Carter harder than expected in this week's New York primary and later in the District of Columbia or Rhode Island. It was more likely that John Anderson could jostle Reagan in a primary here or there, most probably...
...body in superhuman ways and says more with it than most performers manage with the help of Shakespeare's verse; the quartet of fairies in her train--dressed in skintight body suits, adorned with tails and extended fingers--is menacingly inhuman. Their lullaby for the sleeping queen, miles distant from both Mendelssohn and Purcell, sounds exactly like a chorus of watchful insects...
...Mexico. Others will be located near Taegu, South Korea, on the Hawaiian island of Maui, and at sites in the Indian Ocean and the Eastern Atlantic regions. Known as GEODSS (for ground-based electro-optical deep space surveillance), the system will provide almost live-action portraits of distant satellites and permit virtually instantaneous identification of any mysterious intruders in the night...
...GEODSS takes in rapid succession several separate electronic snapshots of each sector of the sky. Because the telescopes are geared to sweep the heavens at a rate that will exactly counter the rotation of the earth, the distant stars appear as sharp pinpoints of light in precisely the same positions in each of the images; if the telescope were fixed, the earth's rotation would cause apparent movement of these stars. But satellites, even those placed in so-called geosynchronous orbits over a fixed point on earth, move against the background stars, however slightly. Thus they change position...
...brings alive all sorts of difficult scenes-awful school social events, boring classroom discussions, dormitory gossip sessions-grants them a waywardness and a resonance that are rare. The deft economy with which he characterizes his heroine's classmates, preventing them from being mere types, is admirable. Strange and distant though his milieu is, it makes a rewarding and instructive place to visit...