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You struck a recently frazzled but lighly entertained nerve in this traveler with "Flying the Crowded Skies" [Aug. 14]. As a project evaluator for the Federal Government, I spent five weeks during June and July plying the heavens on various airlines. After logging about 9,200 as-the-crow-flies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 4, 1978 | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

In Milne's classic, Piglet was left virtually speechless by his run-in with what he thought was the mysterious Heffalump. Now astronomers can share his bafflement as they grope for words to describe their own strange encounter. Off in the distant heavens, among a grouping of stars that the...

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

While black holes may be hard to sight in the heavens, they are gaining high visibility on earth. They are the current rage of astrophysics, a marriage between the older disciplines of astronomy and physics. Says Astrophysicist W. David Arnett of the University of Chicago: "Black holes are where it...

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

(7 of 10) Though no similar event had been seen in the Milky Way since 1604, they had observed in other galaxies great stellar explosions called supernovas. These occur when massive dying stars, like giant springs, rebound from their calamitous collapse. For days or weeks such exploding stars may shine...

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

The intense interest in the series did not mean, however, that the heavens FIFA commands were without clouds. Much of the time the soccer was crabbed, cautious and defensive until Erny Brandts did his walkabout and the Argentines went wild. A meeting of the College of Cardinals produces far more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Ultimate Kick | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

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