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...orbiting eye should also help establish the true size of our Milky Way Galaxy and discover distant galaxies and quasars. By identifying unknown sources of energy and adding data on the universe's mass, IRAS may help settle the grandest question of all: whether the universe will expand indefinitely or collapse upon itself under the remorseless tug of its own gravity...
...other day White House Gardener Irvin Williams looked proudly at the youngster. "It grew 4 ft. this year," he said, scanning the supple trunk that is planted about 12 ft. from the original Adams elm, which is weak and declining. The old tree was the tallest and grandest on the White House grounds until it was hit by lightning in 1965 and lost one of its huge limbs. Another storm in 1976 battered the tree even more, and now decay has begun to eat at the 4½-ft. trunk. Its leaves, once deep green and dense, are thinning. They...
With just five more minutes, the Harvard men's soccer team could have pulled off the grandest of larcenies in the young Ivy League season. For exactly 88 minutes and 38 seconds, the booters beat Columbia, the league champions for the past four years...
...fantasy has taken on a staggering new reality. Under pressure from its water-needy Central Asian republics, and shaken by repeated agricultural failures, the Soviet leadership seems on the verge of sanctioning a water-diversion scheme that would be the grandest engineering project of all time. At least a dozen northerly-bound rivers would be reversed. By channeling 37.8 billion extra cubic kilometers of water a year to the south in European Russia and 60 billion cubic kilometers in Siberia, the project would greatly increase farm output in such arid regions as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, where the high birth rate...
...getting, preserving and enjoying of all this cash between 1952 and 1967 provided comic books with some of their greatest characters and grandest adventures. The eleven vintage stories collected in this sumptuous volume, along with a new yarn and a signed, numbered lithograph, are strong evidence that Scrooge and his creator Carl Barks belong in the great mainstream of American folklore...