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This month will mark the unscheduled arrival of Skylab on earth, as well as the tenth anniversary of mankind's arrival on the moon. These twin aerospace milestones are the subject of this week's cover story, which also looks toward the uncertain but potentially dazzling future of the U.S. space program. To see further ahead, TIME commissioned Science Author and Visionary Arthur C. Clarke to supplement the story with his view of man's long-term prospects in space...
...prosecution's other key evidence is a photograph of bite marks on Lisa Levy's buttocks. The state's expert witness, Dr. Richard Souviron of Coral Gables, told a seminar of pathologists last fall that Bundy's teeth perfectly fit the impressions found on the victim. But bite-mark testimony has rarely been used as evidence in trials...
...more excess baggage, including a small scale for weighing letters that he had apparently shoplifted from another store. Still Easter kept gaining. Finally the exhausted thief collapsed in a parking lot. "I give up," he wheezed, whereupon Easter hauled him to the nearest police station. Easter's quarry, Mark Reese, 31, pleaded guilty to assault and theft and got 30 days in jail, during which he can think about bettering his form...
...Horus, symbol of the all-seeing Egyptian deity, from the top of San Francisco's 853-ft. pyramid-shaped Transamerica Building. "An artistic idea that could be comprehended on many levels," contended Stephen Goldstine, president of the San Francisco Art Institute, and an insightful way to mark the museum's King Tut exhibit...
...endanger wholly innocent earthlings. Some of the agency's sympathizers blamed the "bean counters" in the Federal Government's budget bureaucracy during the Nixon Administration for forcing NASA to build its Skylab "on the cheap," mainly with leftover hardware from the successful Gemini and Apollo manned spacecraft programs. Astronomer Mark Chartrand III, chairman of New York City's American Museum-Hayden Planetarium, claimed Congress was at fault in its financial shortsightedness. Said he: "Hell, if I had my way, I'd target Skylab to fall on Congress while it is in session...