Word: latters
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...status of a cosmic afterthought. Another notion described distortions in the very fabric of space and time, going by the name cosmic strings and cosmic textures. And lately theorists have revived an old idea known as hot dark matter, and an even older one called the cosmological constant. The latter is a kind of cosmic antigravity that gives the expanding universe an extra outward push; it was first conceived by Albert Einstein himself, who then rejected it as "the greatest blunder of my life." Each of these ideas is still floating around, championed by its own corps of diehards...
...latter he was bitterly disappointed, and his subsequent relations with his grown son, so piteously revealed by their correspondence, inevitably revolved around the twin subjects of career and money. Leopold, in Solomon's view, never reconciled himself to Mozart's maturity and in a thousand ways endeavored to infantilize and emasculate him. "Always pursuing his quota of freedom, Mozart constantly drew back and returned to conditions of bondage," Solomon writes. Mozart's lifelong fear of his father determined his behavior. When on July 3, 1778, his mother died in Paris, where Leopold, despite her protestations of poor health, had sent...
...this morning in Salt Lake City after just 9 months at the helm of the 9-million member faith. He was 87 and suffered from prostate cancer. The one-time corporate lawyer served the shortest presidential term in the 165-year history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. TIME senior writer Richard N. Ostling notes that Hunter "had power in his church exceeding that of the pope, but made barely a dent as a church leader." (Mormons believe their leader, unlike the pontiff, can receive revelations directly from God.) Ostling adds that Hunter's successor, senior...
...less fascinating are the patrons, who tend to linger for about an hour--the time it takes to decently smoke a cigar. Some of them visit less than once a month, others show up several times in a day. A case of the latter is square-dweller George Despotes, who commented, "If you lose your marbles, it's a place to come. If things start to smell, it's also a place to come." Despotes, indeed, had his own aroma...
...illegal $200,000 contribution to Nixon's re-election campaign. Eventually Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell pressured William Casey, then sec chairman and Sporkin's boss, to delay an investigation into Vesco's contribution until after Election Day. When Casey tried to lean on Sporkin, the latter resisted and persuaded Casey to do the same-advice that may have spared Casey criminal charges later for obstruction of justice...