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...overestimated-particularly by the Tokyo press. In fact, some of the grievances that had sparked the protests, including the one in front of the Tokyo hospital, were less ideological objections than complaints against the noise of helicopters bringing in wounded G.I.s, jets landing at bases, and other down-to-earth factors. Sato acted quickly to move some military installations away from populated areas, but clearly most Japanese do not object in principle to their presence. Moreover, Lyndon Johnson's decision not to seek reelection, and the opening of the Paris peace talks have taken the edge...
...what seemed almost a counterpoint to Paul's traditionalism, a Catholic prelate last week strongly hinted that the Vatican may be preparing to lift its condemnation of Galileo Galilei, the 17th century Italian physicist whom the Inquisition put under eight years' house arrest for contending that the earth rotates around the sun. During his "examination" in 1633, the aged scientist was scoffed at for challenging the wisdom of Ptolemy, the Egyptian who 1,500 years earlier had asserted that the earth was the center of the universe. And why would Joshua have commanded the sun to stand still...
Imaginative scientists have proposed that powerful laser beams (which actually exert pressure on a surface) be used to push back into correct orbit satellites that have begun to fall toward earth. Others have gone beyond the early idea of a death ray and suggested that laser beams may eventually be powerful enough to provide the ultimate defensive weapon against missiles. Powerful laser beams, they predict, might well make iCBMs obsolete. Focused on an incoming missile, their light would generate enough heat to melt it into uselessness...
Creative artists-not to mention many theologians-have long been intrigued by the thought that Jesus, if he returned to earth, might be scorned or rejected by modern Christianity. Implicitly, this is the theme of Nazarin, a Mexican film made ten years ago by Luis Buňuel;, a onetime cinema surrealist and lifelong enemy of church and state. The film is now shown in the U.S. for the first time, in the wake of his successful Belle de Jour...
...practical preliminary step toward planetary voyages, suggested Spacecraft Center Director Robert R. Gilruth, would be to orbit a giant, cigar-shaped capsule around the earth in the mid-1970s. The big space station, said Gilruth, would be 615 ft. long, carry a crew of 100, and rotate end-over-end 31 times a minute to create an artificial gravity for those on board. Freed from the earth's atmosphere, astronomers on the station could peer through telescopes for an undistorted view of the destination of future space trips. How would this ambitious multimillion-dollar project be financed? An idea...