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...Badlands -Kit Carruthers, 25, and Holly Sargis, 15-are casual about everything. Holly chats pleasantly with the victims before Kit executes them with the same care and concern he might have for a loose shoelace. Kit and Holly could be called callous except that both of them are far distant from any recognizable emotion at all. They are pathologically detached, macabre mutations of their time...
Lopsided Orbit. Usually obscured by the bright glare of the sun, Mercury remains almost as much a mystery as the most distant planet, Pluto. Half again as large as the moon, Mercury may be almost twice as dense. Traveling in a lopsided orbit, it comes as close to the sun as 29 million miles, then sweeps as far away as 43 million miles. To anyone standing on Mercury's surface, the sun would seem to stand still at times, then move backward briefly, in the Mercurian sky. Another oddity: Mercury's trip around the sun takes 88 earth...
Chess Games. The streets and taverns of 17th century Paris here teem with vignettes of squalor (two men playing a seesaw game over a fire for a prize of food) that make their own comment set against the distant pomp of the royal court. The musketeers move through both these worlds with equal ease, yet are part of neither. Their sworn allegiance is to the King, Louis XIII, and against Richelieu, but they are men of pride. Their greatest battle and concern are simply to stay alive. For though they would call themselves their own men, they belong to Louis...
...With the changing political winds, one who sets sail directly toward his distant goal would never get there. The skill lies in tacking...
...Britain, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. There were no effective governments at all last week in Italy and Belgium. In France, isolated and ailing President Georges Pompidou did little to restore confidence in his ability to govern by a largely cosmetic Cabinet reshuffling. In Bonn, Chancellor Willy Brandt, increasingly distant and indecisive, has seen his party's popularity plummet to its lowest level since 1957. In Britain, Prime Minister Harold Wilson has scraped into office with an avowed distaste for his country's membership in the European Economic Community...