Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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, the three planets were above the horizon only during the day, when they were invisible to the naked eye. Still, the Magi might have known about the daytime confluence. Most courts, even then, had astronomers perfectly capable of plotting the course of such bright and dramatic planets through the night sky and noting where their paths would cross during the day. Such a celestial coming together would likely be regarded...
DIED. Charles G. Mortimer, 78, head of General Foods Corp. (1954-65); of a heart attack; in Orleans, Mass. Joining the Postum Co. (later renamed General Foods) in 1928, Mortimer revolutionized the American kitchen by his masterful marketing of such convenience foods as Birds Eye frozen vegetables, Tang breakfast drink and Maxwell House instant coffee. Though he helped build General Foods into the world's largest processed food company, with annual sales of $1.5 billion, Mortimer knew his industry's limits. "You cannot sell me on some new food called 'Glatsky' that will have...
...remains one of the most admirable, quietly exerting her claim on conscience and imagination. It is not just that she was martyred before her sweet, shrewd, unaffected voice could be deadened by self-consciousness and moral certitude. It is also that she had a true artistic gift: a good eye for the telling nuances of human behavior, an instinctively humane spirit, delightedly celebrating the persistence of the ordinary in the most extraordinary circumstances...
MONEX scientists are thus doing the only thing they can do-everything. That includes searching for pollution and Siberian dust over Borneo (which may affect the rain and winds), keeping a weather eye on cold surges (masses of low-temperature air moving rapidly down from Siberia) and sending up balloons into equatorial air currents. All the while, satellites provide an overview with hourly pictures...
...Eye of the Needle, Follett...