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AFTER A DECADE of brutal warfare and ever-increasing corruption and police repression under a dictatorial government, a faint ray of hope is finally arising for the people of South Vietnam. The protest movement that emerged openly in early September has grown to significant proportions and is threatening to topple Nguyen Van Thieu's regime...
...even more important frequency: the 11-cm. band, which has been specifically set aside by the International Telecommunications Union for the use of radio astronomers in their explorations of quasars, pulsars, distant galaxies and even the sun. Trouble is, the signals from these celestial sources are often so faint that they can be easily overwhelmed by signal spillover from the satellites' powerful radio transmissions, even when the complex craft are in a different part...
...well, greeted his proposals with a cool skepticism. Legislators wondered if the suggestions, in the eyes of the American people, would constitute much of the "leadership" and "action" that the President rightly said they yearn for. Even within the Administration, some officials found it hard to muster more than faint praise for the end product of so much public and private soul searching. Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, who favored more wage-price jawboning and a bigger public service employment program than Ford proposed, said, "It is a well-balanced program. Whether it goes far enough as a whole...
Whatever else James Michener may be guilty of, no one has ever accused him of thinking small. Practically entire forests have been felled to produce such trunk-sized novels as Hawaii and The Source. In Centennial, Michener begins with the first faint primordial stirrings on the face of the deep and slogs onward through the ages until he hits the day before yesterday. He is the Will Durant of novelists, less an artist than a kind of historical compacter...
Except to fuel arguments among astronomers, quasars (for quasi-stellar objects) have proved of no practical value since their discovery in 1960. Now the faint, far-off points of light that are possibly the most distant objects in the universe-up to 12 billion light-years away -promise to take on more earthly importance. Scientists at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are hoping to use the bursts of high-frequency radio energy that come from quasars to help them predict earthquakes...