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Even in less troubled times, Pakistanis were prone to observe that the only bonds between the diverse and distant wings of their Moslem nation were the Islamic faith and Pakistan International Airlines. Sharing neither borders nor cultures, separated by 1,100 miles of Indian territory (see map), Pakistan is an improbable wedding of the Middle East and Southeast Asia. The tall, light-skinned Punjabis, Pathans, Baluchis and Sindhis of West Pakistan are descendants of the Aryans who swept into the subcontinent in the second millennium B.C. East Pakistan's slight, dark Bengalis are more closely related to the Dravidian people...
...Agnew abroad is dignified, correct and, above all, distant, the gracious teatime and dinner companion of potentates and princes, ministers and maharajahs. Tall and tanned, he is meticulous to the point of having every last hair in place, even after stepping out of a minor gale. He has done his homework. In private talks and ceremonial functions, Agnew, from all available evidence, has performed flawlessly. Perhaps too flawlessly...
...been less than flattering. The Kuwait Times, in an editorial titled "An Odd Experience with American Courtesy," complained that Agnew was making only a "palace visit," and that "to the masses, and ironically enough, for the local pressmen too, the visit might as well have taken place in some distant corner of the earth." Similarly, the Daily Nation in Nairobi complained of unprecedented security "to keep photographers and newsmen away from the visiting VIPs...
...Distant Molecules Combining the techniques of the chemistry laboratory with the tools of the observatory, radio astronomers have recently discovered at least 13 different kinds of molecules in the vast spaces between the stars of the earth's galaxy (TIME, June 8, 1970). Now the hunting grounds of astrochemistry, as the new discipline is called, have been enormously expanded. French Astronomer Leonid N. Weliachew, 34, reported last week that he had found the first tantalizing evidence of molecule building in galaxies beyond the Milky Way. His finding was one more indication that life may not be unique to earth...
...Resolving Power. Other astronomers have also looked for extragalactic molecules, but without any luck. Lacking sufficiently sensitive radio telescopes, they could not detect the faint "signatures" left by such molecules in the radio waves coming from distant galaxies. To overcome that obstacle, Weliachew, now a visiting astronomer at Caltech, hooked up the school's three big antennas in California's Owens Valley-two 90-ft. dishes and a 130-ft. dish -so that any two of them could be used simultaneously. That technique gave him the resolving power of a huge single antenna with a diameter equal...