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...that was missing from the scene was the distant drum roll and the thwack of the guillotine blade as White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler briskly announced each day which heads will roll in the President's pruning of the bureaucracy. Last week alone the count of important resignations accepted reached 17, bringing the overall total to nearly 60. Not in memory had a U.S. President made such a clean sweep of his own appointments...
...they cannot create them," observes Lawyer-Psychologist Joseph Goldstein of Yale Law School. He thus opposes legalistic custodial laws that assign orphaned children to their nearest blood relatives. He prefers laws that would "acknowledge the emotional realities that exist," allowing the judge discretion to assign the children to a distant relative or even a close friend who is fond of them. His Yale colleague, Jay Katz, proposes in the case of runaways "a provision for legally approved separation between parents and children. Better to have it over than to maintain a fiction...
...illuminated by a spotlight shining like a guiding star from a helicopter hovering overhead. At the site, the 36-story rocket gleamed starkly white, lit by searchlight beams that radiated from the pad, forming a crown of light. Nature added to the display: flashes of lightning glowed within distant clouds, and an occasional meteor streaked through the stars in the clear skies above the cape...
smiled as if for the beating of distant wings...
Seen from space, the distant earth turned the thoughts of many astronauts to environmental problems. "I wondered how everyone is going to live on that small, crowded globe," recalls John Young of Apollo 10 and 16. Even during the tense hours after the explosion of an oxygen tank, Apollo 13's Jack Swigert found himself concerned with the terrestrial environment-and suddenly certain about how to preserve it: "I became convinced that space technology-earth-resources satellites, solar-energy generators, global communications networks and the like-is the answer to the environmental disasters that threaten this fragile earth...