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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Besides the possible black hole in Cygnus, one appears to be part of another double-star system in the constellation Scorpius (the Scorpion). Three more may have been detected, each at the heart of a globular cluster of stars in the halo of the earth's Milky Way galaxy. In the inner regions of these clusters, which contain tens of thousands of individual stars, some of the stars are revolving with wobbly motions, as if disturbed by a center of enormous gravity. Herbert Gursky and Andrea Dupree of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics believe that these stars "may well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Those Baffling Black Holes | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

Charlie's fallen angel has replaced her former halo with a parasol-and is on Cloud Nine. "This is my first three-dimensional role," bubbles Farrah Fawcett-Majors. In the forthcoming movie Somebody Killed Her Husband, Farrah plays Jenny Moore, an unhappily married young mother who falls in love with an unsuccessful writer of children's books (Jeff Bridges). Between embraces, the pair chase around Manhattan trying to find out who knocked off Jenny's husband-and why. "I really understand the character of Jenny, and every day I think I learn something new about her," reflects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: On the Record | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

There you go again, from the worst picture of Richard Nixon you could find on your cover to the end of your biased article. Judge, jury and hangman. Didn't you halo-wearing ghouls draw enough blood during Watergate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 30, 1977 | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

Wisconsin motorists may never see a purple cow, but they are rubbernecking at an enormous piebald blue one emblazoned on Farmer Hilbert Schneider's 75-year-old barn at Johnson Creek, 34 miles east of Madison on Interstate 94. The blue cow, shown fullface, peers out from a halo of stars, sunbursts and corn stalks in a dazzling 1,530-sq.-ft. mural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Rural Murals in Dairyland | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

Then, less than three minutes later, Hunt traded in his halo for horns as the Minutemen's Scott Alexander scored a highly disputed power play goal while Hunt sat quietly in the penalty box for elbowing...

Author: By Sandy Cardin, | Title: J.V. Icemen Slow Up Minutemen, 6-3 | 2/24/1977 | See Source »

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