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...been widely billed as "the comet of the century" had indeed turned out to be a disappointing dud. Looking with unaided eye into the southwest sky after sunset, most observers in well-lighted, smoggy metropolitan areas could find no trace of Kohoutek. Even with binoculars, they saw only a faint smudge near the bright planets Venus and Jupiter. From their orbital vantage, the Skylab astronauts found that the comet had suddenly become bewilderingly faint; only a few days before, they had enthusiastically described it as glowing "yellow and orange, just like a flame...
President Nixon's disclosure of his personal finances (see page 10) revealed that he has only a faint impulse to contribute to charities. Millions of Americans with incomes far smaller than Nixon's give far more. In 1972, for example, Nixon donated-excluding the worth of his vice-presidential papers-a total of $295 to charities. On an income of $268,777, this amounted to little more than 1/1000th of his earnings. His donations never exceeded $7,512 in any of his years as President; his contributions for the four years averaged only $3,370 a year...
...surprised to learn that Miss Woods had nine original tapes in her possession as late as Monday of last week?despite agreement that only recently made copies of the tapes should be played so as to prevent harm to the originals. Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler undercut Buzhardt with faint praise, saying: "I don't want to express criticism, publicly, of any person. He has been working very hard. We've made some mistakes during this period...
...today, as this shot resounded through Aldrich 108. No more than a faint "thump" could be heard in the shuttered, locked confines of our minds...
...executive on the phone to Manhattan Internist John Prutting was in a state of panic. His sister-in-law had suddenly leaped from the dinner table in his apartment. She was speechless, her hands were clutching at her chest, she was becoming faint and turning blue. What could he do? The symptoms were all too familiar to Prutting. He calmly advised his caller to lean the woman over a chair, pound her on the back and reach down her throat with his middle and index fingers to dislodge the obstruction. The doctor heard loud thumping sounds, and soon a relieved...