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MIRA was apparently born under some lucky stars. Ordinarily, it would have cost some $150,000 for the telescope alone. Before long, Bruce Weaver, 28, was able to talk Princeton University into providing-on "indefinite loan"-a 36-in. mirror for the reflecting telescope. An astronomer at Lick Observatory near San Jose volunteered to design the instrument free of charge, and a Los Angeles metal fabricator has agreed to build it at cost-about $20,000. In all, well-wishers have donated more than $100,000 in free equipment, including two computers, one of which will control the telescope...
Americans were treated last week to a rare brand of presidential counsel - an oldfashioned, almost motherly rendering of helpful hints on how to lick high prices. Ford requested - and got - prime-time tri-network coverage of his speech to the Future Farmers of America in Kansas City, Mo. It was a rather inflated forum, given the caliber of the message. "Bring budgeting back in style," he said. "Brag about the fact that you are a bargain hunter . . . save as much as you can and watch your mon ey grow...
...early to know what sort of traditional defense (or "If you can't lick 'em, join 'em" strategy) may result from this by far the most massive assault yet by the Visigoths. Preliminarily, though, cliometrics seems to have scored heavily. TIME consulted a dozen American scholars, many of whom had read the book in advance of publication...
Christine Johnson got out just in time. The lick of flame was creating an inferno. Dark brown smoke shrouded the structure, then rose high enough to hide a police helicopter hovering over the scene. Sheets of ash the size of magazine pages rose gracefully into the air and floated to earth a half block away...
...been denounced on the floor of the Oklahoma legislature, been called "bastard" by state officials and a "lying s.o.b." by a newspaper publisher. A fellow editor once threatened to "slap his teeth out," while another stormed that he was not fit to lick boots. To such aspersions "Frosty" Troy retorts: "I'm a zealot." Then he returns to making more enemies in his job as the publisher, editor and principal reporter of the Oklahoma Observer (circ. 4,164), a twice-monthly tabloid that hits wealthy and powerful Sooners like a dust storm. Says Ed Hardy, press secretary to Oklahoma...