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What an ineffable thrill it was to watch Sadat, Begin and Carter shaking hands [Sept. 25]. It was as singularly breathtaking as the feeling I had when Neil Armstrong murmured through the heavens, "One small step for man, one giant step for mankind."
He went in the cold Roman dusk to take his place among the Popes buried in the crypt of St. Peter's, to lie between his two namesakes, John XXIII and Paul VI. As the plain cypress coffin was borne through the portals of the great basilica, the huge...
Pope John Paul "passed as a meteor which unexpectedly lights up the heavens and then disappears, leaving us amazed and astonished," Carlo Cardinal Confalonieri, dean of the College of Cardinals said.
Last week, almost exactly two thousand years later, the temple so built stood beneath a gleaming, towering, glassy pavilion newly erected at the north end of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art overlooking Central Park. Dendur's ancient stones glow softly orange as it stands on a wide granite platform...
By then astronomers had turned their wartime technology to the peaceful pursuit of stargazing. Rockets equipped with X-ray detectors roared off the pad. Soaring high above the atmosphere, which prevents celestial X rays from reaching the earth, they enabled astronomers to begin charting X-ray sources in the heavens...