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...pickings are slim for would-be U.S. producers, the diet is considerably more nourishing for audiences. Stargazers can see Eartha Kitt in a revamped version of Stephen Sondheim's musical Follies, Wendy Hiller aglow in the American comedy Driving Miss Daisy and, starting next month, Rex Harrison in a revival of The Admirable Crichton. Those with a taste for undeservedly obscure classics can see two sprightly, acerbic Restoration comedies at R.S.C. headquarters in Stratford-upon-Avon, George Farquhar's The Constant Couple and William Wycherley's The Plain Dealer, plus Noel Coward's Easy Virtue, ably done in the West...
...hard, and all but wiped out the women's team. Veteran Doug Lewis, who cracked a collarbone when a Soviet coach who was taking pictures blundered into his path during a ski test a few weeks ago, creaked to 32nd place in the downhill. A.J. Kitt and Jeff Olson, a couple of youngsters still getting used to the World Cup circuit, did respectably to finish 26th and 28th. No U.S. male skier survived the combined. Among the women, early-season injuries knocked out Star Tamara McKinney, '84 Gold Medalist Armstrong, Downhillers Eva Twardokens, Tori Pillinger, Adel Allender and Diann Roffe...
...mysterious arcs, each four to seven times as long as the diameter of the Milky Way, curve around clusters of galaxies that lie some 3 billion light- years* from earth. Astronomers Vahe Petrosian of Stanford University and Roger Lynds of Arizona's Kitt Peak National Observatory, who discovered the arcs, believe each consists of some 100 billion stars but cannot explain the shape. "What gives us a headache," says Petrosian, "is that they are so, so perfect...
...astronomers then switched from infrared to radio observations, using the twelve-meter radio telescope atop Kitt Peak, Ariz. Reason: infrared radiation gives information on the cloud's overall temperature, but radio waves carry more detailed data on the motion within. Interstellar clouds are made up of dozens of different types of molecules, and each emits radio waves of a specific frequency when heated or otherwise "excited." By tuning their telescope to the right frequency, astronomers monitor the behavior of different molecules and consequently learn more about conditions within the cloud...
...Turner confirmed, the two spectra recorded at Kitt Peak were virtually identical. This meant that if each were from a different quasar, the two objects would not only have identical chemical properties and temperatures but also would be the same distance (about 5 billion light-years, in this case) away--a highly unlikely coincidence. "If you get matching fingerprints," Turner says, "you could have images from the same quasar...