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...starring Maarten Smit, Andrew...
Collectively, this new generation of ground-based instruments will open an extraordinary new window on the cosmos. "What we can look forward to," says Caltech astronomer Maarten Schmidt, "is the biggest gain in telescope power in the past 50, maybe even 100 years." It should bring into focus the most distant quasars yet and even planets orbiting other stars...
...than a conventional one, the Keck telescope will weigh only 158 tons, a third the weight of the Hale instrument. Yet it will be able to perform miracles like taking infrared photographs that are 50 to 100 times sharper than any ever before made on earth. Says Caltech Astronomer Maarten Schmidt, famed for his discovery that quasars are the most distant and energetic objects ever observed: "In all aspects, a big telescope can do things better and faster than a small telescope...
...least for a while, Kriss had more hospitable surroundings for his work: the Caribbean island of St. Maarten, where he spent ten days working on the Kissinger manuscript...
Reporter-Researcher Eileen Chiu, who double-checked everything in TIME'S excerpts that could be independently verified, was also vacationing in St. Maarten, with her husband and 20-month-old daughter. "We all had dinner together and spent a lot of time talking about how we would handle the material," says Chiu. So, via the Netherlands Antilles, Boston and New York City, TIME can offer its readers a richly detailed account of a most controversial period of American history from one of its principal participants...