Word: greats
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...theory was there; but technology still needed time to catch up. "We realized that the technology would take many years to develop, but it was a great boost knowing that we ultimately knew a way to make X-ray astronomy very sensitive," Giacconi remembers. Before HEAO-2 could become a reality, though, X-ray astronomy would have to make sporadic progress. In 1962, a group headed by Giacconi discovered the first X-ray star; eight years later the same personnel were responsible for the first orbiting X-ray observatory (named "UHURU" after the Bantu word for freedom...
Robert Gordon looks like a refugee from a George Raft movie with an acrylic pile toupee. His last record, Fresh Fish Special, was a great open-a- few-beers album which included, among other things, the best version to date of Bruce Springsteen's "Fire." With his Elvis-like baritone and falsetto yelps, Gordon made you dance along and sing along, play an invisible guitar and even try Brylcreem...
With Thatcher & Co. in office in Great Britain, may God have mercy upon her victims, Irish, Indians, Pakistanis and blacks...
...presidential hopefuls learn one thing from the elections in Great Britain, let it be that they can win a campaign by saying what they feel, not what they think the public wants to hear...
Even with federally demanded outlays excluded, the JoAes-Conable plan would produce a cut of $15 billion to $20 billion in Treasury revenues. To avoid so great a loss, the Congressmen plan to have the program phased in over several years; they would allow business to reduce its taxes-and add to its investment capital -by about $5 billion next year, permitting the amount to rise to three times that much in 1982. Says Jones of the bill: "This will be the centerpiece of a business tax cut next year...