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...that they had contributed greatly to "the widening of man's horizons." Pope Paul interrupted an audience to announce the sad news. In Geneva, officials postponed the dedication of a gleaming titanium space monument that had been donated by Russia to the Palais des Nations. There was particular gloom in the U.S. space community, especially among the astronauts. Beyond their sorrow for the dead cosmonauts, they felt that the accident-coming as it did on the eve of the Apollo 15 moon shot-might well diminish public enthusiasm for manned space travel...
...children are allowed to work together, teaching and subtly competing with one another. Older children are sometimes assigned to help younger ones. Each pod's six teachers (one for every 41 kids) are free to cruise from child to child, prodding, checking the finished work, combatting the gloom or gossip that often derails preadolescent concentration...
...fourth-quarter 1970] earnings reports will be awful. Pshaw. Who doesn't know that? The market doesn't discount the past." This airy optimism could prove misguided if the economy does not recover rapidly. For the moment, though, the change from Wall Street's black gloom of last May to the rosy hope of today is a striking development...
Moscow and Washington launched the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) 14 months ago on a note of guarded optimism. Last week, with the talks due to resume in Vienna in mid-March, the mood was one of gloom. In Washington, a top-level White House official said that the Administration believed Moscow has failed to make the basic "political decision" on the desirability of setting limits on its military capability. Yet the prestigious Federation of American Scientists has charged the Administration with precisely the same failure and warned that, as a result, SALT may produce nothing but a "sham" agreement...
...brave manly fronts-never mind how weak inside-much of the audience simply loses control. Ollie's father (Ray Milland), a stingy old moneybags with a dirty mind, does a heartwrenching doubletake when he hears the dire tidings. The illiterate Italian piety of Phil (John Marley) also deepens the gloom and proves the movies has at least one ethnic. But it is Ryan O'Neal who has been plucking the heartstrings and pursestrings of the ladies of America. Alas, his much discussed son Bozo turns out to be a cruel mirage, a common enough sexual predicament in modern drama...