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...tiptoes out of the house, climbs a rickety bamboo ladder to his rooftop observation platform, built from driftwood, and aims his homemade telescope toward the sky. He has come to consider the stars old, familiar friends. It was only a month ago that he focused on the constellation Hydra, near whose tail he had spotted his first comet. Suddenly he spotted an unfamiliar glow. "It shone," says Ikeya, "like a street lamp on a misty night." All his checks confirmed what he could hardly believe: he had found another comet...
Stray Clemency. As coups go, Boumedienne's was impressively efficient and bloodless. Only at Hydra, in the suburban heights above Algiers, did the police put up a good fight. What baffled most observers was why Boumedienne acted when he did. Ben Bella ran a one-man show for nearly three years and ran it badly, but always with the strong support of Boumedienne and his 60,000-man army. It was Boumedienne who routed the guerrillas who seized Algiers to protest Ben Bella's overthrow of Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda. It was Boumedienne who crushed Colonel Mohammed Chaabani...
...volume, high-profit luxury car has proved to be an ideal vehicle for market testing Detroit's expensive new accessories and styling ideas. Hydra-Matic, the first successful automatic transmission, started out on the Cadillac; so did the first auto tail fins, which spread through the industry before receding. Cadillac's turning lights, which provide side illumination during a turn, have been adopted by other G.M. divisions, will appear on the 1966 models of some competitors. The Lincoln Continental's handsome slab sides, introduced on the 1961 model, set a styling trend that still dominates Detroit; next...
...Hydra-Foiled. In his pursuit of "Goulash Communism," Khrushchev tried to cope with it, and with all his economy's mounting problems, by replanning the planners. No fewer than six times in ten years, he scrambled the organization table, veering from decentralization back to recentralization in the vain hope of finding the magic mix for what he called "better utilization of the country's industrial potential." It eluded him each time-and his constant shufflings left the Russian economy at the mercy of the monster planning Hydra, with its multiple overlapping bureaus on the national, regional and local...
...Establishment. At present, says Conant in Shaping Educational Policy (McGraw-Hill; $3.95), decisions are made by a "jumble" of forces that include 4,000 decentralized school boards, state education departments often run by political hacks, the hydra-headed "establishment" of education professors and accrediting agencies, and fiercely competing public and private colleges. "The politics of education," he warns, "is rapidly becoming the politics of frustration...