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Sandage prefers to stick with measurements implying an age closer to 20 billion years. Why? He cites, among other items, his latest research into the age of great spherical clusters of stars in the halo of the Milky Way. He and Colleague Gustav Tammann found they are some 17 billion years old. Asks Sandage, with the laconic understatement of a debater who feels sure he has found the clinching argument: "Isn't it rather hard to have a universe younger than its oldest components...
...religious organization is to cleverly confuse the issue. The Moonies exist to make money--piles of it. Rev. Moon does not walk through the Judean desert preaching in tattered clothes. No! "Father" drives one of his many white Cadillacs to one of his several homes and lets his halo envelop all around him. Rev. Moon also dispenses with the thorns and the pain bit. Life is a pleasure for such a wealthy and happy man; so must it be for his brainwashed flock...
...what does a Radcliffe Joan of Arc do till the day of her martyrdom? There are no prison walls on which she can mark the passing days with a bent nail; only the Harvard Coop Calendar. There is not high, slit-like window through which the sun can halo her as she sits in her cell; only the noise and clatter of Briggs Hall. There are no guards to whom she can confide her visions...
...subjects in two upcoming movies, both are being portrayed by camera-sly actresses who admire their subjects: Jaclyn Smith, 33, and Candice Bergen, 35. In Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, a three-hour ABC-TV movie to be aired in the fall, Smith has doffed her Charlie's Angels halo for the bouffant hair and pillbox hats the 31st First Lady helped popularize. Voice lessons and video tapes of Jackie's White House tours helped Smith tone down her Houston drawl to a Vassaresque whisper. Scenes filmed around the capital included one dealing with Jackie's $42.50-a-week...
Lacking in selfesteem, many have donned and doffed different identities like costumes. Some have tried to weave identities out of fictional strands. Bremer imagined himself as the son of Actress Donna Reed. Sara Jane Moore, who tried to shoot President Ford, thought of herself as a Halo shampoo girl. The movie Taxi Driver wove together many themes found in the lives of American assassins. A taxi driver (played by Robert De Niro), obsessed with shooting a presidential candidate and protecting a young prostitute (Jodie Foster), beset by aggressive urges as well as sexual ones (coded in the film...