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DIED. Jean Seberg, 40, American movie actress; in Paris. Police found her body and an empty bottle of barbiturates in her car after she had been missing for nine days. As a 17-year-old Iowa State freshman, Seberg won the title role in Saint Joan after a much-ballyhooed Otto Preminger search, but was so amateurish that her name became a synonym for miscasting. Moving to Paris in 1958 with the first of four husbands, she starred in New Wave films (Breathless), in her last years had been undergoing psychiatric treatment...
...radiated from the sun, Saturn has radiation belts that Pioneer detected as it neared the planet. But when the spacecraft passed through the rings on its approach to Saturn, the radiation abruptly ceased-"as though cut off by a guillotine," says Physicist James Van Allen of the University of Iowa. The radiation had apparently been blocked by the icy particles in the rings. Says Van Allen, discoverer of the earth's own radiation belts: "As far as we know, this is the best shielded place in the solar system...
BOSTON--Voters in New Hampshire and Iowa--two states with early tests for presidential candidates--would choose Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) by overwhelming margins, two newspaper polls published yesterday showed...
Forty-nine per cent of the Iowa Democrats questioned favored Kennedy among eight possible candidates, a survey by the Des Moines Register showed. Carter had the support of 26 per cent of those surveyed, the Register said...
Sixty-four per cent said Kennedy had the best chance to beat any Republican candidate in 1980, the poll showed. Iowa holds its presidential caucuses in January...