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...solar system. But another satellite, the International Ultraviolet Explorer, also found surprising indications of sulfur molecules. Said University of Maryland Astronomer Michael A'Hearn: "The sulfur may be one of the few things we see that actually reside in the comet's nucleus." The most stunning observational feat came when the big, 1,000-ft. radio telescope in Arecibo, PR., managed to bounce radar waves off the fleeting object and perhaps settled the old argument over whether cometary nuclei are gaseous or solid. Said Harvard's Fred Whipple, dean of American comet watchers and chief proponent...
...horses ever get." Actually, Secretariat came to the Kentucky Derby off a defeat. But by the time he had won the Derby, the Preakness and-by the length of a football field-the Belmont Stakes, that was forgotten. Racing had gone 25 years between Triple Crowns, making the feat seem mystical. Then, at a gallop, came Triple Crown Winners Seattle Slew (1977) and Affirmed (1978), and other demonstrably splendid horses of the '70s: Spectacular Bid, Alydar, Ruffian...
...back and as far away as one can go and still have a culture to work with (not even Mailer would try to make a literary One Million Years, B.C.). Inventing almost completely an exotic and complex world so far removed from modern consciousness would provide the necessary feat of imagination to fill out Mailer's corpus. Nothing less than this sort of overweening ambition could have caused the mess of Ancient Evenings...
When the University Marshal is not chatting with Harvard's international colleagues, he is organizing and preparing for the academic exercise for Commencement Day--the culmination of the intellectual part of Harvard's year. "I [was] ordered to 'run' the Commencement." Anderson says, explaining the extent of the organizing feat: "There are 19,000 seats in Tercentenary Theatre and 27,000 people who wish to come, so there is a space problem." In addition to taking constant notes for next year's event, the marshal marches in the scholarly procession that morning, dressed in academic gown, and awards the dozen...
...book, part thriller, part history, part romantic epic, is a remarkable feat of technique, and of soul. Gage deftly shifts among hundreds of characters, dozens of locales, and a welter of big-scale narratives-World War II, the Greek civil war, the exodus of Mourgana refugees in every direction-that in lesser hands would overwhelm the story of one woman's family. He manages to be fair to people he has every reason to despise: he evokes the grievances of the guerrillas as fully as their treachery, the gullibility of the villagers as well as their jealousy and spite...