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...offshore wind, whipping against a coastal pillbox, brings the distant voice of a woman. Her words are lost. Only the rise and fall of her singsong voice, propelled by a powerful loudspeaker, is faintly audible. But the soldiers manning the pillbox know her message by heart. In the name of Chairman Mao, she is beckoning them to the mainland, just 1 ½ miles away...
...frantic free-for-all is prompted by Steve's eagerness to have his prowess appraised. "Did the earth move for you?" he inquires (they are in Spain, after all). "It was very nice," Vicki sniffs, sounding a little as if she were recalling the funeral of a distant relative...
...solar blackout. Scientists, for instance, will search for comets and other bodies close to the sun-possibly even a small undiscovered planet-that would normally be hidden by solar glare. They will also test Einstein's general theory of relativity by measuring the degree to which light from distant stars is bent by solar gravity as the rays pass near the sun. It is during an eclipse that scientists can fully observe the sun's spectacular halo, or corona, believed to be caused by the outrushing of solar gases. Understanding the corona, in turn, may shed new light...
...moment, at least, that eventuality seemed distant. After a midweek Cabinet meeting, Government Spokesman Joseph Comiti, who also happens to be a surgeon, said that the President was in "very great form." But then he added that Pompidou was leaving Paris immediately for a week's holiday at his country home in Cajarc, near Toulouse. Was he ill? "Well," said Comiti, "he would not be resting at Cajarc if nothing were wrong with him. Everybody is ill from time to time." Trailing Pompidou's limousine on the road to Cajarc was an ambulance...
...distant, raised eye of the London Times, the untidy mix of prosecutors, press and Congress seemed almost to amount to "a lynching" of the President. A Times editorial scored Ervin's committee for publicizing hearsay, the Watergate grand jury for considering prejudicial evidence, and the newspapers (especially the New York Times and the Washington Post) for publishing leaks. It complained that much out of-court evidence, like that being offered by John Dean, was "not given under oath, not open to crossexamination" and is thus of a quality that "could hardly be less satisfactory. Yet on this evidence could...