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...earlier Cosmos orbits-112's orbital path had an angle of 72°. Also, the satellite had been launched at a later time of day than previous Cosmos shots and had returned to earth after 122 revolutions, instead of the usual 124. In a letter to the Brit ish magazine Flight International, Perry reported that Cosmos 112 could not have been launched from either Tyuratam or Kapustin Yar, the two known Russian launch sites, both of which are in the southern part of the Soviet Union. Instead, he suggested, it had been launched from a more northerly site-perhaps...
Most Commonwealth leaders had come to London hoping to force Brit ish Prime Minister Harold Wilson to send troops to invade Rhodesia - or at the very least call for a full-scale eco nomic and diplomatic blockade (such as the U.N. unsuccessfully tried against Franco's Spain after World...
...contemporary art. And although its prizes have sometimes been awarded as a result of flackery, they are often rewards for achievement in new fields of art. In 1964, for the second time in the Biennale's history, the U.S. won the top international prize, for the litter-ish paintings of Robert Rauschenberg (Alexander Calder's sculpture won in 1952). This year, despite a powerful push behind the U.S.'s pop-eyed Roy Lichtenstein, whose work has evolved from hyperintense comic-book panels, the grand international prize in painting went to a relatively unknown kinetic artist from Argentina...
...Reform. Last month representatives of the three branches, each of which embraces roughly one-third of the na tion's 6,000,000 Jews, agreed at the annual meeting of the Conservatives' Rabbinical Assembly that denominationalism is "the most pernicious and destructive element in American Jew ish life." In the current issue of the quarterly Judaism, some leading Jewish intellectuals discuss the possibilities of healing the old antagonisms, which in the past led Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jews to form separate rabbinical and synagogue organizations...
...required Kirby's Flying Circus (London), a Godzilla-ish sea monster, smoke generators, a wave-making machine, a mobile cloud-carriage and an expert ballet troupe--but the Boston Opera's unfathomable Sarah Caldwell managed to elevate Jean-Phillipe Rameau's mediocre first opera, Hippolyte et Aricie (1733), in its American premiere, to a delightful rococo Juliet of the Spirits...