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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know the basics of astronomy," says Bell. He is whispering as the display goes on, and his tone suggests an acolyte trying not to disturb a service. Every time he does a show, he admits, he feels a shiver synapsing down his spine. "It's something I cannot explain exactly. You have to work to keep a sense of perspective. Sometimes you feel like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: The Starry Road to Twelfth Night | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...Explaining the alien machine does not explain away the mystery. Astronomers agree that the brief conjunction of Jupiter, Saturn and Mars known to have occurred in 6 B.C. could have been the Star of the Three Wise Men. It might, therefore, mark the real time of Christ's birth, which considerable evidence, both historical and calendrical, tends to put some years before the year now known as A.D. 1. There is a slight complication, however. That star would not have been visible to most people in the Holy Land. For at that time of year, astronomers also know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: The Starry Road to Twelfth Night | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...Carter, they were steered instead to Vance, which the spokesmen interpreted as a calculated insult. The State Department prepared a summary of the Administration's view of the achievements of the negotiations and the hurdles remaining; its aim, said a White House aide, was simply to "explain the facts," which include the U.S. insistence that Sadat's demands were not new, as the Israelis claim, but have been under discussion since early November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: There Will Be Another Chapter | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...broth in Iran. But they neither cooked the broth nor lit the fire under it. True, the KGB has a big station in Tehran. True, some Iranian leftists have been trained by the Palestinians. But the inescapable fact is that Communist and Arab agitation do not begin to explain the extent of opposition to the Shah, and there fore do not begin to justify a superpower confrontation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Self-Paralyzing Policy | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...Goudsmit, 76, Dutch-born atomic physicist and amateur Egyptologist; of a heart attack; in Reno. In 1925, while enrolled in the University of Leiden, Goudsmit and Fellow Student George E. Uhlenbeck determined that an electron spins as it orbits the nucleus of an atom, a discovery that helped explain how atoms have magnetic properties. Two years later, he emigrated to the U.S., and during World War II served on a secret European mission to investigate German progress toward the atomic bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 18, 1978 | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

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